Trump admin live updates: Trump strikes deals with law firms totaling $600M

President Donald Trump on Friday announced agreements with five law firms for $600 million in pro bono work. Four of the agreements Trump revealed were with Kirkland & Ellis, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Latham & Watkins.

He also announced that Cadwalader, Wickersham &Taft agreed to a commitment of $100 million in pro bono services. Cadwalader was the law firm of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, before he represented Trump. Blanche left Cadwalader to represent Trump as his lead attorney.

In this deal, the law firm "voiced their strong commitment to ending the Weaponization of the Justice System and the Legal Profession," per a statement from the White House that Trump posted.

The other four law firms agreed to commitments of $125 million each and to remove diversity, equity and inclusion considerations from hiring and said they wouldn't deny representation to clients based on political views.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders and Michelle Stoddart

Overnight, the Senate confirmed retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Caine was nominated to the post after the sudden firing of his predecessor Gen. CQ Brown who had been in the job for a little under a year and a half of what was supposed to be a four-year term.

The Senate confirmed Caine 60-25.

To be the chairman, Caine is now called back to active duty and will receive a fourth star.

-ABC News' Luis Martinez

Amid the ongoing trade war, President Donald Trump called for lawmakers in Congress to "push hard for more Daylight at the end of a day" in a new post on Truth Social on Friday.

"Very popular and, most importantly, no more changing of the clocks, a big inconvenience and, for our government, A VERY COSTLY EVENT!!!," Trump said in the post.

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart

President Donald Trump will have his annual physical at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. on Friday at 11:00 a.m., according to his official schedule.

The president is expected to depart Walter Reed en route to Joint Base Andrews at 3:45 p.m., from which he will fly down to Palm Beach International Airport and travel on to Mar-a-Lago.

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie