Trump Judge Blocks Obamacare Coverage For Dreamers

The Texas Tribune reports:

A federal judge on Monday issued a court order temporarily blocking a Biden administration rule that would have granted some people brought into the country illegally as children access to health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, a decision that could affect tens of thousands of Texans.

The decision comes after Texas and 18 other states banded together to sue the federal government following recent guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services establishing a pathway for some Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients to enroll in health insurance plans.

In a statement posted to social media on Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated the ruling. “Today, we prevented yet another attempt by the Biden Administration to spend our hard-earned tax dollars on radically unpopular policies that put illegal aliens ahead of” American citizens, the statement said.

Read the full article. Judge Daniel Traynor was nominated to the federal bench by Trump in 2019.

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