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

Lee Zeldin's nomination to head the Environmental Protection Agency as its new administrator was confirmed by the Senate in a 56-42 vote Wednesday afternoon.

Zeldin comes to the agency in the midst of a major environmental policy shift -- with the Trump administration magnifying the impacts Trump claims environmental regulations have on the economy while de-emphasizing the need for emissions reductions and other climate goals.

In his confirmation hearing earlier this month, Zeldin said, "The EPA must be better stewards of tax dollars, honor cooperative federalism and be transparent and accountable to Congress and the public."

Asked specifically when operations to use Guantanamo Bay as a migrant facility would begin, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem remained vague and suggested that the White House is working on it.

“You know, that is something that the White House is working on to use resources that we currently have there in Guantanamo Bay. So we'll go through the process. The worst of the worst is where that could be utilized. So that potential is there. We know we need the infrastructure. We're going after these guys,” Noem said.

White House Border Czar Tom Homan indicated that ICE would run the facility and they'd fly migrants down.

“ICE has the highest detention standards in the industry. You can't find another state, federal, local, and city that has higher detention standards than ICE. So every facility including Gitmo will be run by ICE,” Homan said.

“It's been there for decades. So, we're just going to expand upon the existing migrant center,” Homan said. The base has been used in the past to house Cuban and Haitian migrants and there is a small facility on the Naval base at Guantanamo known as the Migrant Operations Center.

– ABC News’ Kelsey Walsh

Trump signed an executive order aimed at expanding school choice on Wednesday.

The order mandates that the Department of Education "shall issue guidance regarding how States can use Federal formula funds to support K-12 educational choice initiatives." It also mandates a review of how they can make school choice a priority for discretionary grant programs.

Expanding school choice was one of Trump's campaign promises.

-ABC News’ Michelle Stoddart

A federal judge signaled he will issue a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from freezing federal loans and grants, raising concerns that the White House will try to enact the same policy described in the now-rescinded Office of Management and Budget.

District Judge John McConnell, Jr. has not entered the temporary restraining order given the rapidly changing circumstances, but he signaled he would sign an order proposed by the 22 state attorneys general who brought the case.

McConnell had harsh words for the Trump administration and justified his future order -- despite the OMB’s change of policy -- based on a social post by press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“I think the breadth of the relief that plaintiffs are seeking is extraordinary,” argued DOJ attorney Daniel Schwei before McConnell cut him off.

“Respectfully, so was the breadth of the OMB directive,” Judge McConnell said.

– ABC News’ Peter Charalambous, Alex Mallin, and Katherine Faulders