• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is expected to announce a presidential run Wednesday evening during a Twitter Spaces livestream with Twitter CEO Elon Musk, according to multiple reports.
  
  

• New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the rate of new HIV infections in the U.S. dropped between 2017 and 2021, though the progress is not on track to meet a federal initiative’s goal of reducing new infections by 90 percent by 2030.
  
  

• Former President Trump‘s trial in the hush money case in Manhattan is scheduled to begin March 25, 2024.

At a House Financial Services Committee hearing, Federal Housing Finance Administration Director Sandra Thompson argued against the criticism that the agency’s new mortgage pricing penalizes borrowers with good credit.

Thompson said that “even with reduced fees, borrowers with lower credit scores, and lower down payments will continue to pay higher overall mortgage costs than borrowers with higher credit scores and higher down payments.”

Read more about the fee change here.

Unsuccessful Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake‘s last legal challenge of her election loss has been dismissed, with a judge ruling she didn’t prove that Maricopa County didn’t verify signatures on mail-in ballots.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory saying social media use may be harmful to young people’s mental health, while also acknowledging some benefits. Murthy told The Hill that “we’re in the middle of a youth mental health crisis” and pointed to a possible link between time spent on social media and depression and anxiety. Read more here

“How old federal buildings can become new paths to ending homelessness” — Antonia Fasanelli, executive director of the National Homelessness Law Center, and Stockton Williams, executive director of the National Council of State Housing Agencies. (Read here)

“A new Twitter policy cripples journalists’ efforts to halt disinformation” — Shannon Jankowski, program director for journalism and disinformation at PEN America. (Read here)

10 a.m.: The House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs holds a hearing called “Consumer Choice on the Backburner: Examining the Biden Administration’s Regulatory Assault on Americans’ Gas Stoves.”

2 p.m.: The House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services holds a hearing called “A Failure of Supervision: Bank Failures and The San Francisco Federal Reserve.”