White House says some employees were fired by mistake

In the Oval Office on Monday, President Donald Trump declined to give any details on his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

When asked if he was trying to set up a meeting with Putin, Trump said, "I can't tell you what I'm talking about, but we are talking as a group also. I think he'd like to make a deal, but it takes two to tango."

He did not provide any additional clarification on whether he has personally spoken with Putin.

The president went on to suggest that Europe should shoulder the costs of the Russia-Ukraine war, saying, "We're much further away. Remember, we have an ocean separating. They don't -- Europe should be paying what we're paying."

Trump also repeated that he will "probably" talk with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine this week.

-ABC News' Molly Nagle

After the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was effectively shuttered Monday morning, Trump said it was "the right thing" to do and laid into Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who originally proposed plans for the agency in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

When asked by a reporter in the Oval Office for his response to Democrats, including Warren, who said freezing the CFPB is giving big banks and corporations the greenlight to scam families, Trump replied, "Pocahontas," turning to an old disparaging nickname for Warren.

"You know, that was set up to destroy people. She used that as her little personal agency to go around and destroy people," he continued.

Trump said the agency "was a very important thing to get rid of" and "also a waste."

"If you looked at when she really ran it, wow, that was a vicious group of people. They really destroyed a lot of people,” Trump claimed, despite the CFPB’s mission to prevent U.S. consumers from falling victim to fraud and scams.

Asked whether his goal was to completely get rid of the CFPB, Trump said, "I would say yeah, because we’re trying to get rid of waste, fraud and abuse."

-ABC News' Sarah Kolinovsky

Asked if he would consider withholding some of the billions in U.S. aid provided to Egypt and Jordan each year if they don’t agree to take in Palestinians from Gaza, Trump told reporters, "Yeah, maybe. Sure. Why not?"

"I mean, if they don't agree, if they don't agree, I would. I would conceivably withhold aid, yeah," Trump said during his Oval Office spray.

Trump was also asked whether Palestinians in the West Bank would be relocated under his plan.

"No, I assume they want to remain there," he said. "It's different. They're there. It's never been like what we're talking about with the Gaza Strip."

-ABC News' Sarah Kolinovsky

Among the executive orders Trump signed Monday evening included one related to the use of paper straws.

"Nobody really likes paper straws," Trump said while saying the order will ask federal departments and agencies to look at their existing procurement processes.

"These things don't work," he said of paper straws. "I've had them many times, and on occasion, they break, they explode. If something's hot, they don't last very long, like a matter of minutes, sometimes a matter of seconds. It's a ridiculous situation. So we're going back to plastics."