Trump 2nd term updates: Trump attends the Super Bowl

There have been extensive discussions at the White House about installing Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the acting director of the National Archives, according to a high-level official, who said the talks began shortly after President Trump's inauguration.

Despite these conversations, it remains unclear whether the Trump administration had completed the process necessary to officially appoint Rubio to the role, and the National Archivist appointed under former President Biden remained in the post on Thursday.

ABC News reached out to the White House for clarification but did not receive a response.

Prior to his inauguration, President Trump said he wanted to replace National Archivist Colleen Shogan, who was nominated by Biden in 2022.

"We will have a new archivist," Trump said during a radio interview in January.

Shogan's predecessor at the National Archives drew the president's ire by raising concerns about Trump's failure to turn over documents at the end of his first administration -- setting off a monthslong investigation into Trump's handling of classified information.

A senior official at the National Archives told ABC News on Thursday that Shogan was still the executive of the National Archives and Records Administration, and that she "looks forward to continuing her strong working relationship with the President and First Lady."

"I obviously can't speak for the White House. But Dr. Shogan has been running the agency since Inauguration Day," the official said. "We have been working closely with the White House on a number of issues and have had no indication of any changes."

In addition to serving a Secretary of State, a position he was unanimously confirmed to in January, Rubio is also the acting director of USAID, the embattled agency that the Trump administration is in the process of dramatically downsizing.

-ABC News' Shannon Kingston

Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to note that the status of Rubio’s potential appointment to head the National Archives remains uncertain. A previous version of the blog post indicated that the nomination had been fully processed.

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.