Trump admin live updates: Trump rescinds security clearances for former opponents

The Department of Homeland Security shuttered the Office of Civil Liberties on Friday, former and current officials told ABC News.

According to the Department, the "Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) supports the Department's mission to secure the nation while preserving individual liberty, fairness, and equality under the law."

Officials were placed on administrative leave for 60 days so they are able to search for other jobs and will be fired in May, according to a source.

-ABC News' Luke Barr

Elon Musk was slated to attend a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that would touch on China, among other things, two United States officials told ABC News -- but that plan changed after The New York Times reported Musk would be briefed on potential China war plans.

The meeting between Musk and the Joint Chiefs was to be at the unclassified level and attended virtually by Adm. Sam Paparo, the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, one official said.

But some time between the publication of The New York Times story on Thursday and Musk's visit to the Pentagon Friday morning, the visit turned into just a meeting with Hegseth.

Read more here.

-ABC News' Luis Martinez

The Justice Department on Friday moved to disqualify a federal judge who blocked the Trump administration from implementing an executive order that targeted Perkins Coie, a major law firm that previously represented Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.

In its motion to disqualify U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, the department said she "has repeatedly demonstrated partiality against and animus towards the President."

"In this case, reasonable observers may well view this Court as insufficiently impartial to adjudicate the meritless challenges to President Trump's efforts to implement the agenda that the American people elected him to carry out," deputy associate attorney general Richard Lawson said in the filing.

Howell entered an emergency order last week blocking the administration from implementing major parts of Trump's order, writing the action was "retaliatory and runs head on into the wall of First Amendment protection."

Read more about the case here.

-ABC News' Alexander Mallin

The Trump administration halted funding to a program that provides legal representation to thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, according to a memo issued Friday by the Interior Department and obtained by ABC News.

Organizations that collectively receive over $200 million in federal grants were told that the contract was partially terminated. The only funding that remains from the contract is for "Know Your Rights" informational presentations that are given to unaccompanied migrant children in detention centers.

Read more here.

-ABC News' Laura Romero