The Trump administration’s top intelligence officials will face Congress for back-to-back hearings this week to testify about the threats facing the United States and what the government is doing to counter them. The briefing will be held at 10 a.m. ET.
Other news we’re following today:
- Trump officials text journalist war plans: Top national security officials for Trump, including his defense secretary, texted war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a secure messaging app that included the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, the magazine reported in a story posted online Monday.
- Deportation case: The Trump administration on Monday invoked a “state secrets privilege” and refused to give a federal judge any additional information about the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th-century wartime law — a case that has become a flashpoint amid escalating tension with the federal courts.
- Transgender Americans aim to block passport policy change: A federal judge will consider whether to block a Trump administration policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers. In an executive order signed in January, the president used a narrow definition of the sexes instead of a broader conception of gender.