Trump 2nd term updates: Trump attends the Super Bowl

In a new letter to lawmakers, the Treasury Department has confirmed that officials connected to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been granted "read-only" access to the sensitive Treasury system that manages trillions of dollars in government payments.

Democrats, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden, and federal unions have raised alarms following reports that the Musk team had improperly sought access to the system in an effort to disrupt and block certain government payments as part of the review of government.

The Treasury's payment system disperses 90% of all federal payments, including Social Security and Medicare, to tens of millions of people.

-ABC News' Elizabeth Schulze, Sarah Kolinovsky and Ben Siegel

The Trump administration is planning further layoffs of federal workers who don't accept the deferred resignation offer, an administration official told ABC News.

The layoffs could begin soon after the Thursday deadline for workers to accept the "buyouts" offering full salary and benefits through September from the Office of Personnel Management -- a package federal labor unions are advising members not to accept.

It's not clear how many workers would be targeted by the layoffs or how long the process would take.

"The reality is clear: A large-scale reduction, in response to the president’s workforce executive orders, is already happening. The government is restructuring, and unfortunately, many employees will later realize they missed a valuable, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The misinformation campaign being spread by some unions only hurts the very workers they claim to represent, turning them into pawns in a political game instead of ensuring they can make informed, independent decisions," the administration official told ABC News.

-ABC News' Ben Siegel

A Hamas spokesman rejected Trump's calls to relocate Gazans Tuesday.

"American statements are racist belonging to the Middle Ages and reflect the absence of moral and humanitarian standards," Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said in a statement. "Instead of holding the occupation accountable for the crime of genocide and displacement, it is not punished."

-ABC News' Will Gretsky

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.