The Trump administration has asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn the Obamacare law that added millions to the health safety net, but has been at the center of the political controversy.
Government advocate Noel Francisco argued in a presentation Thursday night that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), one of Barack Obama’s distinctive accomplishments in office, became invalid after he the previous Republican-led Congress removed parts of it.
Michael Wolff – Fire and Fury
Wolff’s sensational White House exhibit paints Donald Trump as childish nothing. He claims that the self-styled “very stable genius” has been described as an idiot by Rupert Murdoch and a jerk by Rex Tillerson. Wolff says that what the President of the United States is most interested in is seeing himself on television. “I consider it to be fiction,” Trump said of the book. Many others were not so sure.
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Sean Spicer – The Briefing
Sean Spicer’s 182 days as press secretary released a book that talks about a White House where people routinely brought “burner phones” to avoid detection, describes Trump as sometimes his worst enemy with his manic tweets, and remembers His Fall began essentially on the first day, when Spicer was responsible for attempts to spread the news about the President’s sad opening crowds. Perhaps the highlight, however, is when Spicer describes Trump as “a unicorn riding a unicorn on a rainbow.”
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Omarosa Manigault Newman – Deranged
The most prominent African American in the Trump White House before being abruptly fired, Newman generously spread her criticism. Her description of Vice President Mike Pence as the “Stepep veep” is one of the kindest reviews.
Of the most staggering revelations, the suggestion Trump had initially asked to be sworn on a copy of The Art of the Deal, rather than the Bible, is a difficult image to shake up.
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Cliff Sims – Vipers Team
Cliff Sims’s book suggested that he had made enemies and alienated people throughout the administration. He was particularly scathing with Sarah Sanders, Trump’s former press secretary. Her “gymnastics with the truth,” she said, “would tax even the most agile of prevaricators, and Sanders was not that.”
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Anonymous: a warning
From a senior Trump administration official, and many have left and quarreled with the president, Trump is described as “like a 12-year-old boy in an air traffic control tower.”
The unknown author adds, “It’s like showing up at the nursing home at sunrise to find his older uncle running around the yard without pants and cursing out loud about the cafeteria food, while concerned attendees tried to catch him.”
“Nothing that the 2017 Congress did shows that it had intended that the rest of the ACA continue to operate in the absence of these three comprehensive provisions,” said Francisco, who heads the attorney general’s office for the justice department.
“No further analysis is necessary; once the individual mandate and guaranteed issuance and community rating provisions are invalidated, the rest of the ACA cannot survive. “
The legal push will be a major political battleground in the presidential election, where Trump is seeking a second term against the challenge of Democratic candidate Joe Biden in a November vote.
“President Trump and the Republican campaign to remove the protections and benefits of the Affordable Care Act in the midst of the coronavirus crisis is an act of unfathomable cruelty,” said Speaker of the House of Representatives , Nancy Pelosi.
“If President Trump gets away with it, 130 million Americans with pre-existing conditions will lose the ACA’s life-saving protections and 23 million Americans will lose their health coverage entirely. There is no legal justification or moral excuse for the Trump Administration’s disastrous efforts to take away health care from Americans. “
The United States is the country most affected by Covid-19, with more than 124,000 deaths and 2.4 million infections. The ACA has banned health insurers from denying coverage to Americans with pre-existing health conditions.
“It is cruel, it is ruthless, it is cruel,” Biden said in a campaign speech Thursday about the measure to gut Obamacare.
Trump has criticized health care costs and coverage under Obamacare and has been promising since his 2016 campaign to replace him.
Republicans see the law as excessive government intrusion into the healthcare market. They argue that the system is broken anyway and that they will help more people get coverage by repealing the law while working to minimize disruptions for those who depend on it.
“Obamacare has been an illegal failure and further illustrates the need to focus on patient care,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said, according to the Washington Post after Thursday’s presentation.
“The American people deserve that Congress work bipartisan with the president to provide quality, affordable care.”
The Trump administration’s presentation was made in support of a challenge to the ACA by a coalition of Republican governors.
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