Attorney General Bill Barr insisted that if the administration’s position on healthcare was so ‘outrageous’ then Democrats shouldn't worry about it prevailing in court.

Pennsylvania congressman Matt Cartwright said during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing Tuesday, where Barr was testifying, that millions would lose their health insurance if a challenge to the Affordable Care Act won its case in Texas.

“Do you think it’s likely we are going to prevail?” Barr asked the Democratic congressman, who pointed out the resources the Justice Department is allotting to the case in Texas.

"We’re in litigation. We have to take a position,” Barr continued. “I'm just saying if you think it's such an outrageous position you have nothing to worry about. Let the court do their job.”

Attorney General Bill Barr told Democrats on the appropriations subcommittee they shouldn't be concerned with the DOJ's push to strike down Obamacare since they believe it's such an outlandish position

Democratic Congressman Matt Cartwright of Pennsylvania told Barr that millions would lose healthcare if the ACA was fully eliminated

A case filed last year in the Northern District of Texas claimed that in eliminating the tax penalty for failure to have health insurance, the entirety of the ACA is unconstitutional.

The ongoing lawsuit asks the federal judge in Texas to prohibit the federal government ‘from implementing, regulating, enforcing, or otherwise acting under the authority of the ACA.’

Under Trump, the DOJ is not defending Obamacare in court, and is instead seeking full elimination of the ACA.

Democrats are now demanding that the Justice Department turn over documents related to the administration's refusal to defend the Affordable Care Act.

Cartwright said that supporting ACA’s full elimination without having any plans to replace it was like driving a car off a cliff.

New York Democratic congressman José Serrano said Congress relied on the DOJ to protect American people, including providing them with healthcare

Obamacare advocates have pushed for flushing out the issues with the ACA instead of fulling putting an end to the program

Democratic congressman from New York, José Serrano, agreed with Cartwright and said that Congress and American relied on the DOJ to ‘come through for this country.’

'It's very troublesome to see a Justice Department against the law of the land when there are many people – many people – who, if not liking the whole law, certainly like the pre-existing conditions provision, the ability to keep their child on their plan until that person's 26,' Serrano said during the hearing Tuesday.

'Maybe look around and realize, or pay more attention to the fact that we lean on you to come through for this country. And when we see you taking sides against the law of the land, taking sides that we may not think is in the best interests of the American people, it troubles us.'

Barr’s testimony before the appropriations subcommittee was scheduled to discuss the DOJ’s budget, but he will return to Capitol Hill in May to specifically answer questions related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation.

Barr released a summary of the report last month that indicated Mueller found nothing to prove that the Trump camp had colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump claims these findings give him full exoneration.

It is not clear, however, if Mueller’s report found that Trump obstructed justice during the investigation.

Barr said that even in providing the full report to Congress, which he said he would do by the end of the week, he still may have to black out some portions for security purposes.