Appearing in NBC News on June 11, 2025, J.J. McCorvey interviewed NCLC Senior Attorney Chi Chi Wu for coverage of how consumers, once expecting relief from the impacts of medical debt on their credit reports, are now bracing for impact from President Donald Trump’s push to slash financial regulations.
“These rules generally are very politically popular,” said Chi Chi Wu, a senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, a nonprofit group that stepped in to defend both the medical debt rule and a separate one capping overdraft fees at large banks at $5. The latter measure was voided in early May when Trump signed House Republicans’ resolution repealing it. When federal agencies’ policies are nullified under the Congressional Review Act, they’re prevented from issuing substantially similar ones in the future.
“They’re actively harming regular, hard-working Americans so that their billionaire buddies can profit,” Wu said of administration officials. “There’s really no other way to look at it.”
Chi Chi Wu, senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center.
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