The comments came amid turmoil as DOGE took over USAID offices last week.
President Donald Trump made good on his threats to impose tariffs on some of the U.S.'s trading partners, announcing Saturday that he will levy 25% tariffs on some goods from Canada and Mexico and 10% on Chinese goods.
Experts have warned that tariffs of this magnitude will likely increase prices paid by U.S. and Trump appeared to acknowledge that “some pain” might be possible in the U.S.
Meanwhile, the Senate Finance Committee announced it will meet Tuesday, when it is expected to vote on the controversial nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services.
Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News that cited two presidential executive orders.
The memos included instructions for how to edit email signatures.
-ABC News' Selina Wang, Dr. Mark Abdelmalek, Anne Flaherty and Will Steakin
President Donald Trump is set to meet with the CEO of chipmaker Nvidia Friday afternoon at the White House, multiple sources told ABC News.
This will be the first meeting between Trump and Jensen Huang, the leader of the $3 trillion company that manufactures computer chips that help power the artificial intelligence boom.
A person familiar with the plans tells ABC News the meeting has been planned for weeks and is not a direct response the stock market sell-off Monday, which was prompted by the threat of Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek.
-ABC News' Fritz Farrow and Elizabeth Schulze
Richard Grenell, the envoy for Special Missions, is expected to meet with Venezuela's authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro in the country on Friday, a senior Trump administration official told ABC News.
As the Biden administration did, the Trump administration has recognized Edmundo González Urrutia as the "rightful president" of Venezuela. The U.S. cut formal diplomatic ties with Venezuela during President Donald Trump's first term.
Grenell's agenda for his meeting with Maduro is expected to include repatriation of deportees in the country and gang activity, the senior official said.
-ABC News' Shannon Kingston
During Friday morning's Fox and Friends appearance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth opened up about the possibility of using the prison facilities for detainees if the need arises to house the "worst of the worst" criminals and gang members. He equated it to using it as a supermax prison.
"There's also the eventuality that we could have hardened criminals, hardened gang members, with violent criminal pasts in transit. If that is the case, we're preparing options for the actual detention facilities," he said.
-ABC News' Luis Martinez
