Reuters | U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Biden Vaccine-Or-Test Policy for Large Businesses

The Biden Administration is scrambling to find a new way to provide relief to the nearly 43 million people who borrowed $430 billion in student loans. Our Education Team breaks down the Supreme Court’s ruling and questions how the Administration may rebound.

At long last, the conference committee for the America COMPETES Act, the China competition bill, will meet for the first time in a likely months-long process. Efforts in the Senate to legalize abortion nationwide are expected to fail. The House will vote on allowing staffers to unionize. And the Administration’s request for aid to Ukraine remains stalled amid unrelated opposition to COVID relief and immigration.

The Senate will focus on voting on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court and COVID-19 aid funding. The House will continue with regular business. Both chambers will form a conference committee to sort out the America COMPETES Act. Meanwhile, President Biden looks to shore up the Affordable Care Act with some help from a friend.

The House will debate COVID aid supplemental legislation after $15.6 billion was pulled from the government funding package. The Senate will consider a pair of President Biden’s nominees and meet with Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Meanwhile, the Administration will meet with Chinese diplomats to find a way to end the war in Ukraine.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s mixed ruling on federal vaccination mandates, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released three separate guidances for three groups of states. Our Labor & Employment and Health Care Groups explore the ramifications of the Court’s ruling, what the new guidances say, and when health care facilities in every state (yes, even Texas) will have to comply.