Cases of COVID-19 are on the rise or likely rising across half of the U.S. including much of the south as well as the West Coast, according to a weekly update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Why it matters: The data suggests another summer of illness could be in the offing as people get more people lose protection from vaccination, natural immunity wanes and the virus keeps mutating.
The new Medicaid work rules in President Trump's tax-and-spending law put states on a tight timetable for setting up systems to notify millions of recipients about the requirements — and to track if they're complying.
Why it matters: Previous efforts to set work rules in Georgia and Arkansas showed it could be a messy and expensive process that generally relies on outside vendors to set up the necessary infrastructure.
A federal judge in Texas vacated a Biden-era rule that would have removed medical debt from consumers' credit reports, agreeing with Trump administration and credit industry arguments that the policy exceeded regulators' authority.
Why it matters: The rule, finalized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in January, would have wiped an estimated $49 billion from some 15 million Americans' credit reports and prevented lenders from using medical information in their decisions.
