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Two Federal appeals courts handed the Trump administration a series of minor wins on Tuesday, temporarily pausing two adverse rulings from lower courts.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily delayed a judge’s order that required the Trump administration to restore the country’s refugee admissions program. While the appeal plays out, the Trump administration can pause refugee admissions for anyone approved for entry since Jan. 20.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals also issued an administrative stay of a court order that week that required the Trump administration to reinstate USAID employees’ access to their email and payments systems. Last week, U.S. District Judge Theordore U.S. District Judge Theordore Chuang found that Elon Musk’s attempt to dismantle USAID likely violated the constitution.

The stay of Chuang’s order applies for two days while the court weighs a longer-term stay.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

During Tuesday's Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennett went after CIA Director John Ratcliffe over the Yemen group chat in a heated exchange.

"This sloppiness, this incompetence, this disrespect for our intelligence agencies, and the personnel who work for them, is entirely unacceptable. It's an embarrassment," the Democratic senator said.

"You need to do better, you need to do better!" he added, raising his voice.

Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich and independent Sen. Angus King questioned intelligence officials on the content included in the Signal chat about a U.S. attack on Houthis in Yemen.

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who was inadvertently added to the message chain, told ABC News Live anchor Linsey Davis it contained sensitive information about weapon systems and timing, among other things.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe repeatedly said during Tuesday's hearing that the chat did not contain classified information.

"So the attack sequencing and timing and weapons and targets, you don't consider should have been classified?" King asked Gabbard.

"I defer to the secretary of defense and the National Security Council on that question," she responded.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe, in the course of testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, discussed what he believed the intention was behind the Signal group chat discussing a U.S. attack on Houthis in Yemen that was inadvertently shared with a journalist.

Ratcliffe said he believed the "national security adviser intended this to be as it should have been, a mechanism for coordinating between senior level officials, but not a substitute for using high side or classified communications for anything that would be classified."

Ratcliffe insisted that despite mentioning the name of a CIA officer in the chat, that officer was not operating under cover.