Trump administration updates: Schumer continues to face calls for new leadership

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened to withhold federal funding from New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority if the agency refused to provide information about its efforts to promote safety and inhibit crime on the city's network of subways and busses.

In the letter dated Tuesday, Duffy said that the state-run MTA must provide details on a litany of issues related to public safety, including how the system is addressing or plans to address assaults on transit workers, fare evasion, fatalities and suicides, injuries and "subway surfing."

"I appreciate your prompt attention to this matter to avoid further consequences, up to and including redirecting or withholding funding," Duffy said.

Duffy's letter, addressed to MTA Chief Janno Lieber, also requested information on the MTA's budget, specifically regarding expenditures to combat crime and improve safety. The letter requests a response by March 31.

“The trend of violent crime, homelessness, and other threats to public safety on one of our nation’s most prominent metro systems is unacceptable. After years of soft-on-crime policies, our Department is stepping in to restore order,” Duffy said in a statement.

The demand for information on the city's transit system comes amid the ongoing legal battle between the federal government and MTA over the city's congestion pricing toll, a program President Donald Trump and Duffy moved to kill last month.

The Department of Transportation gave the state a deadline of Friday, March 21, to roll the program back -- a demand NY Gov. Kathy Hochul and Lieber rebuffed, suing the administration.

“Within minutes of receiving that letter, our MTA filed a lawsuit,” Hochul said at the time. “And let me be clear -- the cameras are staying on. The tolls are staying on.”

“We don’t back down, not now, not ever,” she said.

-ABC News' Nicholas Kerr

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a ban on transgender service members.

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday evening that blocks the Department of Defense from barring transgender people from military service, finding the policy violates the constitutional rights of transgender service members.

“Indeed, the cruel irony is that thousands of transgender service members have sacrificed -- some risking their lives -- to ensure for others the very equal protection rights the Military Ban seeks to deny them,” Reyes wrote.

The policy is scheduled to take effect on Friday.

-ABC News’ Peter Charalambous

Trump did not back down from his criticism of a federal judge who temporarily blocked deportation flights of noncitizens in an interview on Tuesday.

The president told Fox News' Laura Ingraham that "many people" called for the impeachment of Judge Jeb Boasberg, who ordered the administration to temporarily halt deportation flights of alleged Venezuelan gang members.

"Well that's a presidential job, that's not for a local judge to be making that determination," Trump claimed in a clip of the interview which will air later Tuesday.

Trump was asked about his reaction to the statement released by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts.

“He didn't mention my name in the statement. I just saw it quickly. He didn't mention my name,” Trump said of Roberts.

-ABC News' Molly Nagle, Hannah Demissie and Michelle Stoddart

Trump signed two executive orders behind closed doors Tuesday.

One removes diversity, equity and inclusion as a factor in hiring for the State Department.

The order removed DEI as a guiding principle in recruitment and promotions within the Foreign Service.

It also directed the government not to factor "an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin" into hiring decisions or in "any element of the Foreign Service," according to a fact sheet from a White House official.

The second EO launched a "National Resilience" strategy aimed at state and local preparedness against cyber attacks and weather events, according to officials.

-ABC News' Molly Nagle