GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House has no ‘fresh’ plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, despite the administration backing a district court ruling striking down the full law earlier this week, a senior White House official told CNN Wednesday [3-27-19]. However, the administration plans to submit a health care replacement to Congress this year, the chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on ‘The Situation Room’…On Monday [3-25-19], the Trump administration said the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down, in a dramatic reversal. The Justice Department said in a filing with a federal appeals court that it agreed with the ruling of a federal judge in Texas that invalidated the Obama-era health care law. The decision came after an internal debate about how to proceed in the wake of a December court ruling that invalidated the entire Affordable Care Act. Trump’s Justice Department moved to back the court’s decision. But that decision — while important in terms of keeping a campaign promise to the President’s base — has highlighted the administration’s lack of health care policy going forward. Asked whether the White House has a proposal for replacing Obamacare in the event the law is struck down in court, a senior White House official told CNN not as of yet.”
–Jim Acosta, Kaitlan Collins, Kate Sullivan and Jeremy Diamond, “White House has no ‘fresh’ health care proposal, but plans to send one to Congress this year,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, March 27, 2019 9:24 pm