Welcome to the News Hour. President Trump has been on the job one month and the pace of his administration has been unrelenting. A federal judge this afternoon ruled the administration can continue firing federal workers by the thousands.

And that's as a new Trump hire became official today. The Senate confirmed one of the president's most polarizing nominees

to lead the FBI. Lisa Desjardin has the latest. The confirmation is confirmed. A matter-of-fact

conclusion to a controversial nomination, as the Senate confirmed Cash Patel to run the FBI,

installing a staunch Trump loyalist to the top of the bureau.

Patel, a former federal public defender and counterterrorism prosecutor, has consistently

blasted the FBI and Department of Justice as the so-called deep state, weaponized, he says,

against President Trump and conservatives. Republicans call him a reformer.

I look forward to working with Mr. Patel to restore the integrity of the FBI

and get it focused on its critical mission.

But Democrats say Patel is dangerous.

The only qualification Cash Patel has to be FBI director is that when everyone else in the first Trump

administration said, no, I won't do that. That crosses moral, ethical, and legal lines.

Cash Patel said, sign me up. This as Trump's cabinet is nearly complete. Only three nominees remain for the departments

of education and labor and the U.S. representative to the U.N. On the president's top legislative

priority, the sailing is not quite as smooth. The House and the Senate are now in a staring

contest over how to pass Trump's tax cut and border package. The Senate moving ahead with its strategy, which divides the president's wish list into two,

while House Speaker Mike Johnson is vowing to catch up next week, bringing one large House framework to a vote.

Republicans in both chambers know the risks here.

What I don't want to see happen is us to get into a competition.

It's not a competition. What are the prospects right now? I think they're good. We've got to get it done.

If we don't, we will have for or 10 people's trust and they'll be mad at us.

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