evidence: President Trump was elected promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). On his first day in office he issued an executive order intended to turn back ACA implementation. He has maintained a constant drumbeat of statements attacking the law, often claiming that it has already been destroyed or crippled. ACA supporters assert that the president’s actions mirror his words; that he is deliberately "sabotaging" enforcement of the ACA. Indeed, a first-of-its-kind lawsuit was recently filed claiming that President Trump is violating his constitutional duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." [...] Some Trump administration actions have clearly undermined ACA initiatives. A recent Government Accountability Office report, for example, criticizes the administration for greatly scaling back ACA outreach and education programs, including funding for the navigators who help consumers find coverage. The administration’s termination of reimbursement payments to insurers for reducing cost-sharing for low-income enrollees threatened to destabilize the ACA markets, although swift reactions by state regulators averted chaos. The Trump administration has also effectively ended the SHOP small business marketplace program. [...] It is nevertheless apparent that the Trump administration is chafing under its ongoing responsibility for enforcing and administering the ACA. The Department of Justice has taken the position in litigation brought by Texas and other Republican-led states that the ACA’s individual mandate is unconstitutional and that its guaranteed issue and community rating requirements, as well as its ban on preexisting condition exclusions, should be invalidated. The administration apparently continues to enforce these provisions while awaiting the outcome of that litigation.