Trump's health agenda gets boxed in

• A federal judge slapped down the administration's approval of Medicaid work requirements — arguably the biggest change it has actually made to health policy so far.
• Some congressional Republicans, meanwhile, are quietly (and not-so-quietly) hoping the administration will also lose the separate lawsuit in which it's trying to get the Affordable Care Act thrown out.

The big picture: These are different kinds of setbacks, and there's still a long way to go in all of these legal proceedings. But together, the crosswinds — the political resistance on one side and substantive losses on the other — leave Trump's agenda in a precarious place.

This will keep happening. The administration appears close to finalizing the part of its drug-pricing plan that calls for including drugs' sticker prices in their TV ads. The pharmaceutical industry will likely challenge that proposal in court.

• Another component on drug prices — the plan to tie Medicare payments for certain drugs to the prices European countries pay — is still a hard sell for some conservatives on Capitol Hill.
• They are giving the administration the benefit of the doubt now, but — as we're beginning to see with the ACA lawsuit — the benefit of the doubt doesn't always last forever.

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