Trump 2nd term updates: Trump attends the Super Bowl

While in the Dominican Republic, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will officially announce that the U.S. has seized a Venezuelan government plane, according to two officials familiar with the matter.

The plane has been held in the Dominican Republic since it was identified in the country last September, around the same time as another plane owned by Venezuela’s authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro.

Seizing assets that are frozen in a foreign country due to sanctions violations requires the assistance of that country’s judicial system, so the process for carrying out a seizure can often take months.

-ABC News' Shannon Kingston

U.S. government vessels will now be allowed to transit the Panama Canal without paying charge fees, the State Department announced on Wednesday.

The deal, now approved by the Panama Canal Authority, will save the government "millions of dollars a year," the agency said.

The announcement comes after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Panama’s President José Raul Mulino on Sunday.

-ABC News' Shannon Kingston

In compliance with President Donald Trump's executive order, the CIA emailed a list of new employee names to the Office of Management and Budget over a non-classified system.

The decision comes as part of the White House review process to reduce federal workforce.

"We are complying with the executive orders and are providing requested information through the appropriate channels," a CIA spokesperson said in a statement to ABC News.

The list used the first names and the first initials of the last names of the personnel, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday.

The executive order asked for the names of employees still in the probation phase of their employment.

At some government agencies, that phase is only six months; however, it can take two years or longer to complete initial CIA training and language courses, meaning that the CIA's list included its hires from the last two years, the official said.

Amid President Donald Trump's threats to cut funding to South Africa, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday that he will not be attending a G20 summit in the country later this month.

After repeating Trump's claim that South Africa is "expropriating private property" without evidence, Rubio alleged that the country is using the intergovernmental forum to promote "solidarity, equality, & sustainability" -- which is the theme of the conference.

"In other words: DEI and climate change," Rubio said of the summit's theme.

The meeting is set to take place in Johannesburg on Feb. 20 and 21.