Trump 2nd term updates: Trump says USAID is run by 'radical lunatics'

Vice President JD Vance's first official trip since taking office was to Damascus, Virginia, to survey damage from last year's devastating Hurricane Helene.

In remarks alongside Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Vance said he was heartened by the stories he's heard on the ground of "good people helping their neighbors rebuild."

Without providing evidence, he also criticized the federal response to the flooding, claiming federal agencies had acted as "a barrier, as opposed to a facilitator" of getting resources into the communities who needed it.

This comes on President Donald Trump's assessment of storm damage in North Carolina last Friday. During that visit, he floated getting rid of FEMA. He also signed two executive orders Friday that focused on emergency response, one of which creates a task force to conduct a "a full-scale review" of FEMA.

Vance was asked about what changes he would like to see made to FEMA, including possibly eliminating the agency. Vance did not mention the agency being terminated, which Trump could not do unilaterally, but once again reinforced the idea that bureaucrats were getting in the way of rebuilding.

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart

President Donald Trump spoke with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, continuing his calls with foreign leaders since taking office. Trump's first call was to Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Trump and Modi discussed "expanding and deepening cooperation" between their countries along with "a range of regional issues, including security in the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East, and Europe," the White House said.

"The President emphasized the importance of India increasing its procurement of American-made security equipment and moving toward a fair bilateral trading relationship," according to a readout of the call.

The two leaders also talked about plans for Modi to visit the White House. The prime minister visited the White House as well as former President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington during the previous administration and made visits to the White House during the first Trump administration.

-ABC News' Molly Nagle

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said her country has received 4,094 migrants, most of whom are Mexican nationals, deported from the U.S. since Jan. 20.

"Mexico has a very important history of repatriation with the United States. First with the Trump administration and then with the Biden administration. There are coordination mechanisms," Sheinbaum said. "We ask for respect for human rights."

Sheinbaum said four planes with deportees arrived this past weekend. But she noted it has happened in the past and that there has not been "a sustained increase" of deportations.

-ABC News' William Gretsky

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it has completed its initial implementation of ending its DEI program, which has included placing nearly 60 employees on paid administrative leave. The release said the employees in question had been solely focused on DEI initiatives.

According to the release, the combined annual salary of those employees totals more than $8 million, an average of more than $136,000/year per employee. One such employee is making more than $220,000 per year."

Additionally, the VA has identified other DEI-related expenses totaling more than $6.1 million, which the department said it is working to cancel.

This comes after President Donald Trump signed an order last week to eliminate DEI initiatives in the federal government. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier Monday indicated Trump would take more executive action toward "fully removing DEI inside the Pentagon."

-ABC News' Nathan Luna