; Whereas, on March 25, 2019, the Department of Justice, in a letter to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, changed its position and announced that the central holding of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas should be upheld and the entire ACA should be declared inseverable from the minimum essential coverage provision and struck down; Whereas, on December 18, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Texas v. United States, 945 F.3d 355 (5th Cir. 2019), upheld the decision of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas striking down the minimum essential coverage provision, but vacated the decision on severability and remanded the case to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas; Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States granted, on Monday, March 2, 2020, a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by 21 State attorneys general and will review, in California v. Texas, No. 19–804 (U.S.) and Texas v. California, No. 19–19109 (U.S.), the decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Texas v. United States, 945 F.3d 355 (5th Cir. 2019); Whereas, if the ruling of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Texas v. United States is upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States, seniors enrolled in Medicare would face the reopening of the Medicare donut hole and be subject to billions of dollars in new prescription drug costs; Whereas, as of August 5, 2020, 38 States and the District of Columbia have expanded or voted to expand Medicaid to individuals with incomes below 138 percent of the Federal poverty level, providing health coverage to more than 12,000,000 newly eligible people