10 things you need to know today: March 26, 2019

The Trump administration shifts to back full ObamaCare repeal, Trump vents anger at enemies after Mueller report, and more

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1. DOJ shifts, backing full repeal of ObamaCare

The Justice Department in a dramatic reversal revealed in a legal filing on Monday that it supports the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama's signature health-care law. The department said in the document filed with a federal appeals court that it is "not urging" the reversal of any part of a lower court ruling invalidating the law. In that ruling, Judge Reed O'Connor of the Federal District Court in Fort Worth, Texas, held that the individual mandate to acquire health insurance "can no longer be sustained as an exercise of Congress's tax power" because lawmakers eliminated the penalty for people who fail to get coverage. The administration had previously said protections for people with pre-existing conditions should be scrapped but the rest of the law should be preserved.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.