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U.S. House files brief in support of Baltimore’s ACA lawsuit
The U.S. House of Representatives filed a brief Friday in support of Baltimore’s lawsuit over the Trump administration’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act, alleging “significant efforts to undermine” the act’s goals.
The lawsuit, filed last August in U.S. District Court in Maryland by Baltimore and other U.S. cities, accuses President Donald Trump and his administration of “deliberately trying to make the Act fail” by discouraging enrollment, raising prices and misappropriating funds allocated to support the ACA.
The House noted in its brief in support of the plaintiffs that it has a “strong institutional interest in the effective implementation” of the act. The brief concludes that the administration has taken steps to undermine the attempt to expand coverage and has harmed millions.
The plaintiffs claim the administration has violated the constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
The House’s brief was authorized by the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group. The two Republican members dissented.
