“That required the Federal government to act in May 2016. It took this long to sign this? How can they do that?”
personally, i suspect that trump gave the GOP in Congress a certain deadline to repeal and replace obamacare and that if they didn’t act, then he’d start doing it himself.
I agree. But it’s almost two years since the court order. When Trump had a court order the court stopped that action that day of the court order.