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BumRushDaShow

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Wed Jan 15, 2025, 05:45 PM Jan 15

Democratic-led states look to defend Biden healthcare rule for DACA immigrants

Source: Reuters

January 15, 2025 2:43 PM EST Updated 3 hours ago


Jan 15 (Reuters) - The Democratic attorneys general of 14 U.S. states moved on Wednesday to take over the defense in court of a rule by the outgoing Biden administration providing health insurance to immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

Led by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, the officials said in a filing in North Dakota federal court that the administration of Republican President-elect Donald Trump will likely not defend it from a challenge by Republican-led states. Trump criticized the 2024 rule while campaigning.

A federal judge last month temporarily blocked the rule from being applied in the states that sued while the case proceeds. The Democratic officials said that without the rule, their states will be forced to absorb the costs of providing medical services to thousands of uninsured immigrants while losing revenue from premiums paid to state-run insurance exchanges.

"This case requires parties who are willing and situated to defend the Final Rule," they said. Platkin was joined by the attorneys general of California, Illinois, Maryland and Michigan, among other states. The office of Republican Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, which is leading the legal challenge to the rule, and the U.S. Department of Justice, did not immediately respond to requests for comment, nor did a representative of Trump's transition team.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/democratic-led-states-look-defend-biden-healthcare-rule-daca-immigrants-2025-01-15/

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Democratic-led states look to defend Biden healthcare rule for DACA immigrants (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jan 15 OP
That's what we need. Our Democratic states working together to enact good things for their citizens. Fla Dem Jan 15 #1

Fla Dem

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1. That's what we need. Our Democratic states working together to enact good things for their citizens.
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 06:10 PM
Jan 15

At some point the red state citizens will realize what they've been missing.

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