White House says some employees were fired by mistake

The White House announced on Tuesday the formation of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, tasked with advising President Donald Trump on national security challenges and advancing the administration's "America First" agenda.

Devin Nunes, chief executive officer of the Trump Media & Technology Group, which runs Truth Social, will serve as chairman. His general counsel, Scott Glabe, will also serve on the board.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy; longtime head of global government affairs for Blackstone Wayne Berman; former chief of staff Reince Priebus, former National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien; and Katie Miller, who’s the wife of Trump's White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, will also join the board.

-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh

Lawyers with the Department of Justice are asking a federal judge to weigh in on whether FEMA can suspend a program that pays for states to house migrants once they are released from federal custody.

According to acting FEMA administrator Cameron Hamilton, the federal government plans to suspend funding of the Shelter and Services Program – which provides state funds to house undocumented migrants – based on concerns that money was “going to entities engaged in or facilitating illegal activities.”

Earlier this week, Elon Musk claimed that his team at the Department of Government Efficiency “discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants” and would attempt to claw back the funds.

The DOJ requested the court weigh in by 11 a.m. on Wednesday.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

Paul Martin, the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development, was fired on Tuesday by the White House's Office of Presidential Personnel.

Martin's firing comes a day after his office released a report saying USAID had lost the ability to track and monitor more than $8 billion in unspent aid and risked $500 million in U.S.-grown food aid spoiling as a result of Trump's changes to the agency.

Marc Meyer, assistant inspector general for investigations at USAID, will now take over Martin's role.

"It has been a true honor and pleasure to walk alongside my OIG colleagues around the world as we sought to provide independent and aggressive oversight of USAID programs and personnel," Martin wrote in a Tuesday email to his Office of Inspector General colleagues.

A USAID official told ABC News following Martin's dismissal, "Paul was the most apolitical of apoliticals. He did not deserve this. He had decades of experience as a leader in the IG community and is known for pushing out timely and impactful oversight to make government better, more accountable to taxpayers, and deter fraud and corruption -- whether at DOJ, NASA, or most recently at USAID."

-ABC News' Karen Travers, Ben Siegel and Will Steakin

With snowflakes pummeling the Capitol dome, senators struck a deal Tuesday night to push back a final confirmation vote on Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to serve as director of national intelligence.

The Senate was poised to vote on Gabbard's nomination Tuesday at around midnight, but the vote for Gabbard will now occur at 11 a.m. on Wednesday.

The deal means that senators won't have to slip and slide back to the Capitol at midnight on Tuesday, but it also includes a compromise that allows a final vote on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation, which is expected later this week, to go on as scheduled, alleviating GOP concerns that pushing Gabbard's vote would have a domino effect that also delayed Kennedy's.

Assuming Kennedy makes it through a test vote on Wednesday that is now scheduled for after the 11 a.m. vote on Gabbard, a final vote on Kennedy's nomination will likely take place around 7 a.m. Thursday morning.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin