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The Trump administration put more than half of the officials at the National Security Council at the White House on administrative leave on Friday afternoon, according to a source familiar with the matter. This is part of a restructuring under interim national security adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Staffers included career officials and political hires by the administration.

The restructuring attempts to transfer the office to the State and Defense departments. Most notably, the National Security Council's communications staff no longer exists.

-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh

U.S. District Judge John Bates permanently barred the Trump administration from enforcing a March executive order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block.

"This case arises from one of a series of executive orders targeting law firms that, in one way or another, did not bow to the current presidential administration’s political orthodoxy," Bates wrote. "Like the others in the series, this order -- which takes aim at the global law firm Jenner & Block -- makes no bones about why it chose its target: it picked Jenner because of the causes Jenner champions, the clients Jenner represents, and a lawyer Jenner once employed."

The decision from the Republican-appointed judge is the latest legal setback for the Trump administration's effort to retaliate against what it says are law firms that engaged in "lawfare."

Trump issued his executive order targeting Jenner & Block in March, and the firm quickly sued, arguing the order is part of an effort to "coerce law firms and lawyers into renouncing the Administration's critics and ceasing certain representations adverse to the government."

Bates wrote that Trump's order "is doubly violative of the Constitution" because it not only targets a law firm because of its legal work but also sends a broader message to any lawyer who has challenged "government-imposed orthodoxy."

"This order, like the others, seeks to chill legal representation the administration doesn'’tlike, thereby insulating the Executive Branch from the judicial check fundamental to the separation of powers," he wrote.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that as part of its deal with Nippon Steel, U.S. Steel will remain at its Pittsburgh headquarters.

"The bulk of that Investment will occur in the next 14 months," he said.

The president added that he will visit U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh next Friday.

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President Donald Trump, taking reporter questions after signing executive orders on nuclear energy, was interrupted when his phone rang.

"Oh, it's a phone call. Do you mind?" he joked to reporters. "It's only a congressman," he added.

Seconds later, the phone rang again. He said it was "a different congressman" and that "they're all congratulating us."

Asked by one reporter if it was an iPhone, given his new tariff threats against Apple, Trump said, "Yeah, lucky it is."