He hosts the popular right-wing and pro-Trump podcast "The Dan Bongino Show."
President Donald Trump's administration is continuing its radical effort to cut much of the federal government and crackdown on immigration -- and is being met with dozens of legal challenges.
On the foreign policy front, Trump's press secretary said the White House believes it can reach a deal to end the war in Ukraine this week even as Trump attacks Ukraine's president and blames it for starting the war, which even some in his own party are calling him out over.
Meanwhile, heads of federal government agencies were telling employees not to reply to an email from Elon Musk, Trump's ally who he picked to cut government waste, which asked for them to list their accomplishments for the week or face termination.
Howard Lutnick, the former CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, was sworn in as commerce secretary on Friday at the White House.
Vice President JD Vance and President Trump were in the Oval Office for the ceremony.
Lutnick was confirmed by the Senate in a 51-45 vote. He will help oversee Trump's economic agenda, including tariffs and developing a sovereign wealth fund.
The Pentagon has temporarily delayed mass layoffs of thousands of probationary employees as they continue to review the potential impacts on readiness, two U.S. officials tell ABC News.
One of the officials said the Defense Department did not anticipate making any determination this week while the assessment of impacts continues, particularly since the DOD is a worldwide enterprises with civilian personnel around the world. It’s unclear how long the delay could take.
The officials said that department officials are looking at the third and fourth order effects and impact on the force if there are thousands of layoffs.
The Defense Department has about 55,000 probationary employees worldwide. That’s the universe of civilians who have less one to three years of service in their current jobs. Exemptions have been requested for some of these employees so the actual number of layoffs will be lower, but still significant given that the DOD is the nation’s largest employer.
-ABC News' Luis Martinez
The Trump administration's layoffs across agencies have hit the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has laid off over a hundred probationary employees, including some of those who work on the team responsible for producing air traffic navigation maps, multiple sources tell ABC News.
"132 probationary employees represented by PASS" were terminated," a union said. "We believe all of these employees are critical not only to the frontline safety workers, but to the entire aviation ecosystem," Professional Aviation Safety Specialists National President Dave Spero told ABC News in a statement.
Some of the employees affected were part of the FAA's Air Traffic Organization en route charting group, which is responsible for maintaining and updating enroute navigation charts used in the National Airspace System and by air traffic controllers around the country, sources tell ABC News.
"If we're no longer there to create the maps that air traffic air traffic controls are using, mistakes will eventually happen," one of the FAA employees who was laid off told ABC News.
The FAA and the Department of Transportation have insisted no critical employees were let go.
-ABC News' Will Steakin, Sam Sweeney and Ayesha Ali
At the White House governors event, there was a tense exchange between President Trump and Maine's Democratic Gov. Janet Mills. The back-and-forth came as Trump discussed his executive order banning transgender athletes from women's sports.
"Are you not going to comply with that?" Trump asked Mills directly. She responded that she was "complying with state and federal laws."
"Well I'm -- we are the federal law," Trump said. "You better do it, you better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't," he said.
"See you in court," Mills said.
"Good. I'll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be an easy one. And enjoy your life after governor, because I don't think you'll be in elected politics," Trump said.
