Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., is demanding the Trump administration answer questions surrounding the potential scrubbing of Obamacare content on federal websites.
Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter on Tuesday to the Trump administration for documents surrounding the deletion of references to Obamacare on Medicare.gov.
Cummings’ letter refers to a report from the nonprofit Sunlight Foundation that found that the Department of Health and Human Services deleted an entire page on the relationship between Affordable Care Act and Medicare.
HHS also deleted links and references to “The Affordable Care Act & Medicare” and other pages that previously appeared on Medicare.gov’s primary “About Us” page, Cummings wrote.
“The deletion of this information from the Medicare.gov website may violate the Paperwork Reduction Act,” Cummings wrote to HHS Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma.
“Deleting this information appears to be yet another attempt by the Trump administration to undermine the [Affordable Care Act],” Cummings also noted.
CMS told the Washington Post that it performs routine updates and maintenance to its websites and that includes revision and removal of content that is “not current or underutilized.”
Cummings requested Azar and Verma hand over all documents referring to the removal of the content and any policies governing the removal of information from public websites.
The agency did not return a request for comment.
