; Whereas, as of the week ending July 11, 2020, more than 30,000,000 people in the United States are claiming unemployment benefits; Whereas, on February 26, 2018, 18 State attorneys general and 2 Governors filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Texas v. United States, No. 4:18–cv–00167–O (N.D. Tex.) (referred to in this preamble as Texas v. United States ), arguing that the requirement of the ACA to maintain minimum essential coverage is unconstitutional; Whereas the State and individual plaintiffs in Texas v. United States also seek to strike down the entire ACA as not severable from the requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage; Whereas, despite the well-established duty of the Department of Justice to defend Federal statutes where reasonable arguments can be made in their defense, Attorney General Jefferson Sessions announced in a letter to Congress on June 7, 2018, that the Department of Justice would not defend the constitutionality of the minimum essential coverage provision; Whereas, in the June 7, 2018, letter to Congress, then Attorney General Jefferson Sessions announced that the Department of Justice would instead argue that provisions protecting individuals with pre-existing medical conditions (specifically the provisions commonly known as community rating and guaranteed issue ) are not severable from the minimum essential coverage provision and ought to be invalidated; Whereas the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an order on December 14, 2018, that struck down the ACA in its entirety, including protections for individuals with pre-existing conditions, based on the ruling of that court that the requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage was unconstitutional