White House says some employees were fired by mistake

A group of nonprofit organizations are asking a federal judge in Washington to issue a temporary restraining order to block the Trump administration’s 90-day freeze of foreign aid, arguing the president’s attempt to block aid “antithetical to American values” breaks multiple federal laws and violates the constitution.

The lawsuit alleged that the foreign aid freeze is unlawful, exceeds Trump’s authority as president, and is causing havoc across the globe.

“One cannot overstate the impact of that unlawful course of conduct: on businesses large and small forced to shut down their programs and let employees go; on hungry children across the globe who will go without; on populations around the world facing deadly disease; and on our constitutional order,” the filing said.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous, Katherine Faulders, Will Steakin and Ben Siegel

Amid the flurry of lawsuits and hearings surrounding the Trump administration, the American Bar Association -- the country’s largest legal organization -- issued a stark warning Tuesday about the White House’s “wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself.”

“Americans know there is a right way and a wrong way to proceed. What is being done is not the right way to pursue the change that is sought in our system of government,” ABA President William Bay wrote.

The statement noted that lawyers -- who comprise 30 percent of House, more than half of sitting senators, and the vice president -- should remember that while “everything can be more efficient … adherence to the rule of law is paramount."

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

Trump criticized "certain activists and highly political judges" who he says want to "slow down" or stop his administration's efforts to investigate "FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE."

Trump did not criticize a specific federal judge in his Truth Social post, but it came after he called the blocking of some of his executive actions by court order “bad rulings” in an interview that aired Monday night. It also comes after Vice President JD Vance said on social media that judges "aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power."

Trump added: "Losing this momentum will be very detrimental to finding the TRUTH, which is turning out to be a disaster for those involved in running our Government."

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart

Some 171 staffers are now on administrative leave from the Environmental Protection Agency's teams responsible for diversity, equity and inclusion and environmental justice.

In a Tuesday morning press release, the EPA provided the updated numbers, saying that 11 DEI staff and 160 environmental justice staff have been placed on leave as the agency tries to comply with Trump's DEI executive order.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin took aim at the Biden administration in the announcement, saying, "The previous Administration used DEI and Environmental Justice to advance ideological priorities, distributing billions of dollars to organizations in the name of climate equity."

-ABC News' Kelly Livingston