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

Senate Democratic leaders took an early victory lap on Wednesday afternoon following the White House's decision to rescind the OMB memo freezing federal funding, claiming Trump's turnaround was a result of their urging Americans to "make their voices heard" against the initial order.

At the same time, these Democrats insisted they weren't under any "illusion" that the Trump administration would still try to implement these aid freezes and would try again if the president didn't withdraw the nomination of Russell Vought to lead the OMB.

"The proposal was best described with the three C's: chaotic, careless, cruel," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said. He added it is a "long war" and that they need to "continue to fight it."

– ABC News' Isabella Murray

President Trump said Wednesday he plans to sign an executive order to permit the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to use Guantanamo Bay as a migrant facility.

"We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people," he said.

"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back," he continued. "So we're going to send them out to Guantanamo. This will double our capacity immediately."

President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act Wednesday afternoon, his first piece of legislation since assuming his second presidency.

"It's going to save countless innocent American lives," he said, calling it a "landmark law."

"I want to thank every House Republican, every Senate Republican, as well as the 12 Senate Democrats and the 48 House Democrats who voted to pass this vitally important bill," he added.

"Laken was a brilliant and beautiful 22-year-old nursing student from Georgia, the best in her class," Trump said. He also addressed her parents who were present for the signing.

The president said that under this law, the "Department of Homeland Security will be required to detain all illegal aliens who have been arrested for theft, burglary, larceny, shoplifting, assaulting a police officer, murder, or any crime that results in death or serious injury."

“There was a short-term pause or funding freeze on certain discretionary spending payments, such as government grants, only for us to quickly look at the scams, dishonesty, waste and abuse that's taken place in our government for too long,” Trump said while delivering remarks prior to signing the Laken Riley Act.

“And, restating right now to correct any confusion that the media has purposely and somehow, for whatever reason, created Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid have not been affected by any action we're taking in any way, shape or form,” he said.

“We are merely looking at parts of the big bureaucracy where there has been tremendous waste and fraud and abuse,” he added, before divulging into an argument about money sent to Gaza.

Trump said that “these were the payments and types of payments affected by the temporary freeze,” emphasizing that “the American people strongly support these efforts.”