The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to reorganize and cut 80,000 jobs according to an internal memo authored by the department chief of staff Christopher Syrek.

The memo obtained by the Associated Press notes that the department wants to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000.

The memo instructs VA officials to work with DOGE to ‘resize and tailor the workforce to the mission and revised structure’ and ‘move out aggressively, while taking a pragmatic and disciplined approach.’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President J.D. Vance departed Washington, D.C. the morning after President Donald Trump’s joint session address.

The duo are heading to the southern border.

Trump directed his Pentagon Chief to take operational control of the southern border as he redirects troops to assist border patrol efforts.

From Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent for DailyMail.com

President Donald Trump ‘s address to Congress was a hit with viewers but DailyMail.com polling shows how one portion of his speech particularly resonated with neutral observers.

Fifteen minutes into Tuesday night’s speech, he turns to one of the issues that drove his election campaign.

‘I signed an order making it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female,’ he says.

When the response of viewers is plotted in real time it shows that neutrals like what they are hearing. The ‘worm’ of their responses ticks up, according to analysis by pollsters at J.L. Partners.

President Donald Trump could announce rolling back some of the tariffs imposed on Canada and Mexico as early as Wednesday.

It comes just days after the U.S. imposed 25 percent tariffs on all good imported from the two neighboring countries this week rocketing the country into a trade war.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appeared on Bloomberg on Wednesday morning where he said the president is considering easing some tariffs.

‘There are going to be tariffs, let’s be clear, but what he’s thinking about is which sections of the market that can maybe, maybe he’ll consider giving them relief,’ Lutnick said.

The commerce secretary said that could go until they get to April 2.

A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Trump administration push to rebuke a federal judge who imposed a quick deadline to release billions of dollars in foreign aid – prompting furious pushback from the minority.

By a 5-4 vote, the court told U.S. District Judge Amir Ali to clarify his earlier order that required the Republican administration to release nearly $2 billion in aid for work that had already been done.

Although the outcome is a short-term loss for President Donald Trump‘s administration, the nonprofit groups and businesses that sued are still waiting for the money they say they are owed. One of the organizations last week was forced to lay off 110 employees as a result, according to court papers.

It’s the second time the new administration has sought and failed to persuade the Supreme Court to immediately rein in a lower-court judge in legal fights over actions taken by Trump.

Donald Trump was welcomed back to the White House on Tuesday evening by a group of his closest advisors and family members.

He told the room it was challenging making the speech to a very divided joint session of Congress.

‘If you think that was easy – it wasn’t,’ Trump said in a 32-second video posted by the White House.

‘You’re a very special group and thank you very much,’ the president added.

The video included quick messages from Trump’s youngest daughter Tiffany, who is pregnant, his press secretary and his daughter-in-law Lara, who is married to his middle son Eric.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt got close to the camera and lauded: ‘Best speech ever.’

Most viewers of Donald Trump’s big speech think it was the right move to eject Rep. Al Green as he continued to interrupt the joint session.

The Democratic congressman waved his cane at the president and shouted: ‘You have no mandate to cut Medicaid!’

He was unceremoniously escorted out of the chamber by the Sergeant at Arms.

An exclusive J.L. Partners snap poll of 774 viewers for DailyMail.com found that 56 percent of respondents agreed that he should have been ejected.

Less than a third thought it was the wrong decision.