Trump 2nd term updates: Trump attends the Super Bowl

Trump doubled down on his belief that Gazans should be relocated out of Gaza while taking questions at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"There's hardly a building standing, and the ones that are are going to collapse. You can't live in Gaza right now. And I think we need another location," Trump said.

The president repeatedly claimed that Gazans do not want to live in a dangerous region.

"If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently and nice homes and where they can be happy and not be shot, not be killed, not be knifed to death, like what's happening in Gaza," he added as Netanyahu looked on.

"If they had an alternative, they'd much rather not go back to Gaza and live in a beautiful alternative that's safe," Trump added.

The president reiterated that nations such as Jordan and Egypt can accept the Gazans. However, leaders in both nations have rejected such a mass relocation.

"It doesn't have to be one area, but you take certain areas and you build really good quality housing, like a beautiful town, like someplace where they can live and not die," Trump said.

The State Department has begun working to assist in evacuating all USAID staff who are on foreign assignments worldwide, sources familiar with the effort told ABC News.

The Department is aiming to recall all USAID employees, including family members, to the United States by Saturday, according to multiple sources.

On Tuesday, new deputy administrator for USIAD Pete Marocco told State Department officials that if the evacuation wasn't completed, the military would step in, a source familiar with the conversion told ABC News.

A federal worker described the move to ABC News as a sudden recall of thousands of foreign service officers, forcing families to uproot with just days' notice—spouses quitting jobs, kids leaving schools, and even pets being relocated.

"To uproot them and call them back to Washington like criminals while dealing with families and logistics is cruel. These people have kids in school," a former USAID employee told ABC News.

-ABC News' Will Steakin and Lucien Bruggeman

House Speaker Mike Johnson texted Elon Musk in the last hour, urging him to keep up his work with DOGE and telling him to "continue the effort, because it's really important for us to get to restore fiscal sanity."

When asked if he's comfortable with Elon Musk's role and access to federal agencies, Johnson emphasized the "very important service for the people" that Musk is doing, and that he is "encouraging him to continue digging."

Johnson also said "it's not that simple" when asked if Trump has the authority to shut down government agencies without Congress, adding that it "all depends on the details."

"If they're executive branch agencies, the executive is in charge of them. Congress funds them. But there are important, you know, questions to be asked about all the parameters of that. So, I don't have all the -- it's not an easy answer," Johnson said.

In regards to USAID, Johnson said, "there have been a lot of abuses in that agency" and said there will be "an appropriate action," though he added that they "haven't yet sorted out exactly what's happening with it" and he would not say whether the executive order to dismantle USAID violates the constitution.

– ABC News' Arthur Jones II and Lauren Peller

President Donald Trump pushed back on criticism against the qualifications of some of Musk’s DOGE team, who are reportedly as young as 19 years old, saying, "That’s good."

The president said he hadn't seen any of those employees but claimed they worked out of the White House.

"They're smart people, unlike what they do in the control towers, where we need smart people. We should use some of them in the control towers," he said before making a reference to his baseless claims about air traffic control tower employees.

-ABC News' Fritz Farrow