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Already unlikely, the prospects for creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel could vanish altogether if the United States takes over Gaza and displaces the population, as President Trump proposes.

Health clinics face cuts, closures as Trump’s funding fight ripples outside of Washington  NBC News

Judge halts Trump’s government worker buyout plan  BBC.com More questions than answers about possible RIFs, deferred resignation program  Federal News Network Federal judge delays Trump administration’s buyout deadline for federal workers  Fox News Judge temporarily blocks federal worker ‘deferred resignation’ program amid legitimacy

Judge halts Trump’s government worker buyout plan  BBC.com Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s offer to federal workers  WBAL TV Baltimore More questions than answers about possible RIFs, deferred resignation program  Federal News Network Trump administration plans sweeping layoffs among workers who don’t opt

Russ Vought, champion of Schedule F and slashing agency budgets, wins confirmation to OMB  Government Executive Senate Democrats Hold the Floor in Overnight Protest of Trump Nominee  The New York Times Russell Vought confirmed to head government’s leading budget office after Dems

Mr. Vought, an architect of Project 2025 who served in the first Trump administration, will be at the center of President Trump’s plans to upend the federal bureaucracy.

Senate Confirms Russell Vought as Office of Management and Budget Director  The New York Times Russell Vought: Senate confirms Project 2025 co-author as Trump budget chief  BBC.com Project 2025 architect Russell Vought confirmed to head of powerful Budget Office  The Independent The United

At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Mr. Trump took a moment to speak of bipartisan comity. Just hours earlier, he torched the federal bureaucracy, the global order, the media and Democrats.

Marko Elez had recently been given special access by a federal judge to highly sensitive payment systems in the Department of Treasury. (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla)

Multiple judges have temporarily blocked efforts by President Trump to dramatically gut the federal government, and more lawsuits are yet to come. Laura Barrón-López reports on the latest.