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On Monday, President Trump was asked by reporters about the new plan unveiled by his administration encouraging migrants to self-deport by offering a $1,000 stipend.

"So, we're going to have a self-deportation, where they deport themselves out of our country and we'll work with them, and we're going to try, and if they -- if we think they're good, if they have, you know, the people we want in our country, they're going to come back into our country. We'll give them a little easier route. But if they don't work and if we take them out after the date, then, they're never coming back, and that's the least of the problems they're going to have," Trump said in the Oval Office.

He said that as part of the program "we're going to pay each one a certain amount of money, and we're going to get them a beautiful flight back to where they came from, and they have a period of time."

ABC News has asked the White House about whether there is an end-date to the self-deportation offer, as the president implied in his comments.

Trump said that people who do not self-deport will "never get a path to come back in."

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart

Former first lady Dr. Jill Biden said on Monday that she does not think the federal government will be as involved with women's health investments and research as it used to be.

Biden spoke at the Milken Institute Global Conference in a discussion about the think tank's new Women's Health Network, of which she has been named chair. The initiative will promote research and investments for women's health, according to a press release from the Milken Institute.

"I think this is really an opportunity for business, for private equity to, you know, it doesn't seem like the federal government is really going to be as involved as they were, in -- so we need to look at this as a challenge, but also as an opportunity. And I think we all have a part to play in every aspect of this," Biden said when discussing what excited her about the initiative.

Biden was seemingly referencing federal government cuts, which have heavily hit health research initiatives as well, although she did not call out the White House or any figures by name. The White House has defended government cuts, including to health research, as meant to reduce waste and fraud.

Biden later said that some of the opportunities she sees as ways to impact women's health in the U.S. are to break down "silos" between data that researchers have collected, as well as to get more women enrolled in clinical trials.

-ABC News' Oren Oppenheim

The Trump administration faces two new lawsuits from a coalition of state attorneys general who are trying to stop the recent cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services and the president's halt to offshore wind leasing.

The pair of lawsuits -- filed in federal courts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts -- are the newest legal challenges against the Trump administration filed by a group of Democratic state attorneys general.

"This administration is not streamlining the federal government; they are sabotaging it and all of us," Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.

A group of 19 attorneys general filed a lawsuit in Rhode Island District Court to challenge Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s attempt to fire 10,000 employees. The AGs argue the cuts to the Department prompted "severe, complicated, and potentially irreversible" harms, including shutting down laboratories devoted to testing infectious diseases, missing vaccine deadlines, and abandoning ongoing experiments.

The second lawsuit, filed by 17 attorneys general in Massachusetts District Court, challenges the president's moratorium on offshore drilling he signed on his first day in office.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

President Trump was asked to respond to criticism from the Catholic community on the AI-generated image of Trump dressed as the pope that Trump and the White House shared on social media.

"I had nothing to do with it," Trump said after claiming Catholics "loved it."

"Somebody made up a picture of me dressed like the pope, and they put it out on the internet. That's not me that did it. I have no idea where it came from. Maybe it was AI. But I know nothing about it. I just saw it last evening," he said.

The image was shared on Trump's own Truth Social account, as well the official White House X page. When pressed on that fact, Trump replied, "Give me a break. Yeah, it was -- it was just, somebody did it in fun. It's fine."