Attorney General Barr tepidly backs his own department's position to no longer defend the Affordable Care Act.
"I hear [lawmakers] saying you've taken this legal position [that] can have bad policy decision," Barr said. "But as the attorney general, you take positions based on the law."," Barr insisted to a House Appropriations subcommittee.
“If the Supreme Court rules that Obamacare is out, we’ll have a plan that is far better than Obamacare,” President
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