Sen. Susan Collins wants Attorney General Bill Barr to reverse the Justice Department's aggressive move seeking to obliterate the Affordable Care Act
Sen. Susan Collins wants Attorney General Bill Barr to reverse the Justice Department's aggressive move seeking to obliterate the Affordable Care Act.to Barr sent Monday, the Maine Republican argues that if the Trump administration wants to change the health care law, it should come to Congress and ask. Otherwise Barr's department should be defending the law from a lawsuit seeking to cripple it, she says.
Collins said in an interview last week that she doesn't believe Republicans have any viable plan to replace Obamacare in a divided government, and her missive to Barr amounts to some of the harshest internal blowback yet that the Trump administration has received for supporting a lawsuit last week aimed at bringing down the law.
President Donald Trump is using the new legal threat to Obamacare to pressure his party to come up with an alternative to Obamacare and become "the party of health care." Republican senators, Collins included, say they want to see a plan from the president before moving forward with anything. In general, Republicans have been reluctant to put forward new, sweeping health care legislation after failing to repeal the law in 2017, an attempt Collins opposed.
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