The Justice Department said it would obey a court order pausing the nearly $1.8 billion fund, potentially signaling a broader pullback.

The world is getting more uptight about lending money to President Donald Trump’s government — causing interest rates to climb in ways that are worsening affordability pressures, hampering economic growth and creating a new risk for Republicans in November’s midterm elections.

At the time the law passed, the Congressional Budget Office estimated around five million people would become uninsured because of the work requirement, including many who were working but unable to handle the paperwork to prove it. Medicaid currently covers about 68 million Americans who are poor or disabled.

The White House released a medical report Friday following Trump’s most recent checkup. The report said the president “remains in excellent health.” Context:

CBP announces Pete Vasquez as the next U.S. Border Patrol chief, succeeding Mike Banks who retired after 37 years of federal law enforcement service.

Instead of a uniting event, America's Independence Day celebrations are becoming yet another partisan battleground.

President Trump is backing away from his plan to establish a $1.8 billion fund to pay people who say they have been politically persecuted, according to people familiar with the president’s thinking.

When [President] Trump was elected, things changed, and we knew that he would target Hunter, and we just could not let our son go to jail on a charge that no one would go, I mean, no one has ever gone to jail for,

Trump announced the results of his health exam at Walter Reed, revealing that he somehow aced an IQ test without even taking one.