White House says some employees were fired by mistake

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a constitutional lawyer, again defended Elon Musk and DOGE, pushing back on court orders blocking the group's moves.

"I think the courts should take a step back and allow these processes to play out," Johnson said in a news conference Tuesday. "What we're doing is good and right for the American people. What DOGE is doing is making sure that your taxpayer dollars, all of us, are spent in the way that they're intended to be spent."

Several judges, including a Trump-appointed judge, have ruled against the administration and argued that its cuts, freezes and other orders may be unconstitutional.

Johnson added he agreed "wholeheartedly" with Vice President JD Vance, who posted this weekend that "judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power."

The speaker then went a step farther, saying he doesn’t feel other branches of government -- namely the legislative branch -- are getting steamrolled by DOGE, even though Trump and Musk have repeatedly limited the spending of congressionally appropriated dollars.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller, John Parkinson, Arthur Jones II and Jay O'Brien

Jordan says it will take in 2,000 sick Palestinian children from Gaza

When ABC News' Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce asked why Jordan should take in Palestinians, given that the King has rejected those calls, Trump put the King on the spot.

"But he may have just something to say because we discussed it just briefly. I think maybe you want to say it now," Trump said, turning to the King.

"I think we have to keep in mind that there is a plan from Egypt and the Arab countries. We're being invited by Mohammed bin Salman to discussions in Riyadh. I think the point is is, how do we make this good for everybody. Obviously, we have to look at the best interest of the United States, of the people in the region, especially to my people of Jordan, and we're going to have some interesting discussions today," Abdullah said.

He then announced plans to take in 2,000 children from Gaza, despite his previous rejection of Trump's calls for Palestinians to relocate to Jordan. But he wouldn't commit to anything beyond that.

"I think one of the things that we can do right away is take 2,000 children that are either cancer children or in a very ill state to Jordan as quickly as possible. And then wait for, I think the Egyptians to present their plan on how we can work with the president to work on a collage of challenges," Abdullah said.

-- ABC News' Mary Bruce, Molly Nagle, and Michelle Stoddart

In testimony on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell faced a barrage of questions about DOGE's access to millions of Americans' sensitive data at the Treasury Department -- and the shutdown of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Powell repeatedly emphasized that Americans' bank accounts -- and the government's payments system that processes checks like Social Security -- are "safe." But he said the closure of the CFPB means there is no federal regulator protecting consumers against deceptive practices at the biggest U.S. banks.

-- ABC News' Cheyenne Haslett and Elizabeth Schulze

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday refused the Trump administration’s request to throw out a temporary restraining order imposed to limit individuals associated with DOGE from accessing sensitive Treasury Department records and payment systems.

Judge Jeanette Vargas, who will hear the case going forward, decided there was a “sound factual basis” for the temporary restraining order when it was imposed late last week.

She agreed to clarify that the order does not prevent the Treasury Secretary himself or other Senate-confirmed officials in the department from accessing the payment systems.

-- ABC News' Peter Charalambous and Aaron Katersky