“President Trump abruptly fired dozens of officials in the past few days — including inspectors general, a member of the National Labor Relations Board and career prosecutors — in ways that apparently violated federal laws, setting up the possibility of lawsuits,” the New York Times reports.

“But the prospect of getting dragged into court may be exactly what Mr. Trump’s lawyers are hoping for. There is a risk that judges may determine that some of the dismissals were illegal, but any rulings in the president’s favor would establish precedents that would expand presidential power to control the federal government.”

“Trump officials tried to start their shake-up of the Federal Bureau of Investigation even before the president took office, picking supervisors in New York and New Jersey to run the agency until the Senate could confirm Kash Patel, Trump’s choice for FBI director,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“But in an Inauguration Day scramble, White House officials goofed on the White House website and listed the wrong man in charge of the agency… Instead of correcting the error, officials let it stand, and the two men traded temporary titles, hopeful that Patel could soon be in the job.”

“The Trump administration’s biggest swing at radically reshaping federal spending lasted just under 45 hours,” CNN reports.

“A sweeping freeze on trillions in federal spending for grants and loans, issued Monday night by the White House budget office to federal agencies without fanfare, sparked outrage and confusion – even among fellow Republicans. The impact touched all corners of the country, with state Medicaid funding portals briefly shuttered and programs like Meals on Wheels and Head Start scrambling to figure out if they were about to lose their funding.”

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“Meta Platforms has agreed to pay roughly $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit that President Trump brought against the company and its CEO after the social-media platform suspended his accounts following the attacks on the U.S. Capitol that year,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Of that, $22 million will go toward a fund for Trump’s presidential library, with the rest going to legal fees and the other plaintiffs who signed onto the case.”

A new Quinnipiac poll finds 46% of voters approve of the job Donald Trump is doing in his first week as president, while 43% disapprove and 11% did not offer an opinion.