I was originally preparing an article to post here on the issues raised by "Trump Administration Sharply Cuts Spending on Health Law Enrollment," by Abby Goodnough and Robert Pear (New York Times online, posted on Thursday, August 31, 2017), also available at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/health/affordable-care-act-trump-spending.html (subscription may be required).
Then came another article raising issues of what to do when the federal government which is supposed to spend money to enforce a law, instead spends that same money to dismantle the same law, see this article posted online on Labor Day 2017, by Audrey Carlsen and Haeyoun Park, "The Same Agency That Runs Obamacare is Using Taxpayer Money to Undermine It" (New York Times online, posted Monday, September 4, 2017), also available at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/04/us/hhs-anti-obamacare-campaign.html.
If these people were using their own money to dismantle the law they swore to enforce, that would not eliminate at least the issue of how can public officers they get away with acting against the public interest? Concentrating on remaining insurance coverage issues is part and parcel with that issue.
Related questions, then: Since the law in question that these people took an oath to uphold is the Affordable Care Act, what remedies are available to the people who have enrolled for health care insurance under that law?
And do those available remedies include a mandatory injunction to make public officials obey the law they have sworn to uphold and enforce?
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