White House says some employees were fired by mistake
After taking the recent buyout offer, some employees were fired, a source said.
President Donald Trump's administration, including Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, is continuing its sweeping effort to cut much of the federal government -- but it's being met with legal challenges.
Trump is also making his second administration's first forays on the diplomatic front with calls to Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy on ending the 3-year-old war that began in February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine.
And a day after Hamas released more hostages taken when it attacked Israel in October 2023, Secretary of State Marco Rubio agreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the militant organization needs to be "eliminated."
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Trump’s effort to dismantle CFPB hit with 2 federal lawsuits
As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency turns its sights on potentially dismantling the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the Trump administration faces two new legal challenges.
The National Treasury Employees Union filed two lawsuits overnight against acting CFPB director Russell Vought, challenging both the takeover of the CFPB and DOGE’s access to sensitive records maintained by the agency.
One lawsuit alleged that Vought’s efforts last week to halt the CFPB’s supervision and enforcement work overstepped the authority of the executive branch, arguing that only Congress – which created the CFPB in the wake of the Great Recession – has the authority to destroy the agency.
The second lawsuit alleged that DOGE’s access to CFPB records violates a federal law that protects the security of sensitive records maintained by the agency.
– ABC News’ Peter Charalambous
Trump's schedule includes executive order signing
The White House has released President Donald Trump's schedule for Monday.
The president will have no public events, according to the guidance, though he will receive an intelligence briefing at 11 a.m. ET. At 1 p.m. ET, he will sign executive orders in the Oval Office. It's not clear what the orders will be.
Trump to discuss tariffs on steel, aluminum
President Donald Trump made brief remarks about steel and aluminum tariffs, saying he’d hold a meeting early this week.
"Tomorrow. We will have a meeting tomorrow," Trump said as he arrived at the White House early Monday.
It was not immediately clear whether that meeting would take place on Monday or Tuesday.
-ABC News’ Alex Emerson
Court grants request to block 3 Venezuelan immigrants from being sent to Guantanamo
A federal court on Sunday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from sending three Venezuelan detainees from being sent to a migrant holding facility at Guantanamo Bay, according to a report from AP News.
The three men had been accused of having connections to the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, the report said. Texas Gov. Glenn Abbott designated the gang a foreign terror organization in September 2024.
The first flight carrying so-called high-threat migrants to the newly established migrant holding facility in Cuba arrived Feb. 4. All 10 people on the flight were also suspected members of Tren de Aragua, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
However, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing the three men, said in a filing early Sunday that they "have a pending case before the court challenging their unlawfully prolonged detention" and asserted that they are "migrants who fled Venezuela seeking protection" in the United States.
The filing asked that the U.S. District Court of New Mexico block their transfer on the grounds that “the mere uncertainty the government has created surrounding the availability of legal process and counsel access is sufficient to authorize the modest injunction,” AP News said.
Judge Kenneth J. Gonzales granted the temporary order to prevent their relocation after a brief hearing on Sunday, according to the AP News article.
Trump said last month that the United States will work to prepare the naval base to hold 30,000 migrants awaiting processing to return to their home countries.