Trump Tests the Limits of Presidential Power With Spending Order

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, senior economy editor Ben Holland looks at behind the Trump administration order pausing some government spending. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

Donald Trump’s order pausing a broad swath of federal payments is the latest in a series of actions that seem designed to test the limits — both legal and political — of presidential power.