The White House said on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump is experiencing swelling in his lower legs and bruising on his right hand, after photographs emerged of Trump with swollen ankles and makeup covering the afflicted part of his hand.

Karoline Leavitt read a doctor’s letter about President Donald Trump that she said was intended to dispel health concerns about the swelling in his ankles and a makeup-covered hand.

The White House is refusing to release its federal budget proposal, an Office of Management and Budget official confirmed Thursday in a move experts have decried as “extraordinarily unusual,” and potentially illegal.

The Trump administration said it would release more than $1 billion in federal funding for after-school programs that had been paused.

The Trump administration is withholding billions in education funding that was supposed to be distributed earlier this month. Democrats and some Republicans are urging the White House to reverse course.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump hosted a pair of Arab Gulf leaders at the White House on Wednesday as violence between Israel and Syria renewed doubts about his pledge to impose peace on the Middle East. Trump held a meeting in the Oval Office with Bahrain’s crown prince and dined privately with Qatar’s prime minister.

With little progress to share on the region’s most intractable problems, including the war in Gaza, President Trump was more focused on promoting diplomatic ties as a vehicle for economic growth.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Canada has been "pretty difficult to deal with" with respect to negotiating a trade deal with the Trump administration.