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Joe Kasper, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff, is moving to a new role working on special projects at the Pentagon, according to a senior defense official.

“Joe Kasper will continue to serve President Trump as a Special Government Employee (SGE) handling special projects at the Department of Defense,” the official said. “Secretary Hegseth is thankful for his continued leadership and work to advance the America First agenda.

The move is the latest in a number of staff changes at the Pentagon. Three close advisers to Hegseth were pushed out last week amid allegations of leaking to the media, which they denied in a joint statement.

A fourth senior staffer, John Ullyot, said he resigned from the Pentagon, suggesting the building has devolved into “total chaos.”

-ABC News' Anne Flaherty

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem released new advertisements telling migrants, "If you are here illegally, you are next."

The 30 and 60-second ads are part of the DHS's effort to urge migrants who are in the country illegally to leave. In the ad, Noem said those who don't register with DHS and are in the country illegally could be fined up to $1,000 a day.

Earlier this year, the DHS rolled out a $200 million ad blitz touting President Donald Trump's efforts to arrest migrants in the country illegally.

-- ABC News’ Luke Barr

The Trump-Vance inaugural committee raised a staggering $240 million for the second presidential inaugural of President Donald Trump, a new FEC filing shows, including millions from the cryptocurrency industry, cabinet members of the Trump administration and other corporate leaders.

The record-breaking $240 million dwarfs the $107 million that Trump's first inaugural committee had raised in 2017.

The filing only discloses donations and refunds, so it's not yet clear how much of that money was actually spent on inaugural events and how much of that money is left.

The biggest donor was multinational food company Pilgrim's Pride Corporation, which gave $5 million despite having very little political contribution history at the federal level in recent years.

A close runner-up was crypto company Ripple, which gave $4.9 million.

In all, the disclosure filing showed contributions from more than 800 donors to the inaugural committee.

--ABC News' Soo Rin Kim

The White House is defending Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth following recent revelations that he shared attack plans in a second Signal group chat thread that included sensitive information about strikes in Yemen.

“The President absolutely has confidence in Secretary Hegseth,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on the White House North lawn on Monday. “I spoke to him about it this morning, and he stands behind him.”

Leavitt blamed former Pentagon employees who were fired amid a sweeping leak investigation.

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“Unfortunately, there have been people at that building who don't like the change the secretary is trying to bring. So they are leaking and they are lying to the mainstream media. We've seen this game played before,” she said. “The Secretary is doing a tremendous job, and the President stands strongly behind him.”

She said no classified information was shared in the Signal chats.

--ABC News' Kelsey Walsh