Trump admin live updates: Dems react to Hegseth discussing Yemen strike in 2nd chat

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday announced the Department of Justice is filing a civil suit against Maine, challenging the state's policy regarding transgender athletes competing in girls' and women's sports.

"Maine is discriminating against women by failing to protect women in women's sports," Bondi said at a press conference alongside Education Secretary Linda McMahon, former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines and others.

The move follows repeated warnings from the Trump administration and an announcement last week from Maine's attorney general that the state would not enter into an agreement with the U.S. government that would have required schools to prohibit transgender students from participating in girls sports.

A United States official confirmed that Darin Selnick, who had been serving as the Defense Department’s deputy chief of staff, was placed on administrative leave as part of an ongoing investigation into what the DOD chief of staff described in March as “recent unauthorized disclosures of national security information involving sensitive communications with principals within the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

Prior to becoming the deputy chief of staff, Selnick performed the duties of undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, where he oversaw some of the big changes in DOD personnel policy. Among other things, that included rolling out the ban and removal of transgender service members and the dismissal of probationary employees.

Prior to working at the Pentagon, Selnick was a senior adviser at Concerned Veterans for America, the advocacy group that used to be headed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

-ABC News' Luis Martinez

President Donald Trump is expected to name the Internal Revenue Service agent who investigated Hunter Biden as the acting head of the IRS, sources familiar with the matter said.

Gary Shapley, the IRS whistleblower who accused the Justice Department under President Joe Biden of granting his son, Hunter Biden, special treatment during a yearslong probe into his tax affairs, is expected to lead the agency -- at least in the short term, sources said.

"Gary is a long-tenured civil servant who has dedicated the last 15 years of his professional life to the IRS. Gary has proven his honesty and devotion to enforcing the law without fear or favor, even at great cost to his own career. He’ll be a great asset to the IRS as we rethink and reform this crucial organization," a spokesperson for the Treasury Department told ABC News.

In March, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promoted Shapley as a senior adviser, where he was focused on IRS criminal investigations.

-ABC News' Rachel Scott, Will Steakin and Katherine Faulders

Maryland Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen will travel to El Salvador on Wednesday to work to facilitate the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who the Trump administration admits was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and is being held in the notorious prison CECOT.

Van Hollen made his announcement at a joint town hall with Congresswoman April McClain Delaney, telling constituents

"I don't even know if we announced this, but I am planning tomorrow to go to El Salvador to work to bring him home," Van Hollen said.

Van Hollen had requested a meeting with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele during his visit to the White House on Monday. He has repeatedly called for the Trump administration to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release and return to the U.S.

In a video message on X on Friday, he said, "The family is traumatized. They’re worried of course minute to minute about what might happen to him in that notorious prison. The Trump administration needs to get him home."

-ABC News' Oren Oppenheim, Lauren Peller and Meghan Mistry