Selena Simmons-Stefan

The change came in a public memo issued last month by the General Services Administration, which was prompted by President Trump's executive orders on diversity, equity and inclusion and the one about gender identity. It includes a list of nine clauses to exclude in future contracts.

One of them explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated facilities like restaurants and housing and drinking fountains. Melissa Murray is a law professor at NYU. She says businesses still have to comply with laws that ban segregation and discrimination.

She notes these civil rights protections from the federal government have been on the books since the 1960s. Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.

More Americans have health insurance at the moment than ever before. Enrollment in healthcare.gov, those Obamacare health plans, is really high right now at more than 21 million people. That's almost doubled since President Biden took office. And the insurance industry, hospitals and doctors groups, they all like that. They're going to be very resistant to major changes.

And regular people could mobilize again to resist changes to the ACA.