A lot happens in Washington every day, from the White House to Capitol Hill and everywhere in

between. That's where we come in. On the NPR Politics Podcast, we keep you up to date on what

happens inside Washington and what it means for you and your community. The NPR Politics

podcast, listen wherever you listen. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine

Hurst. The Department of Homeland Security is shutting down internal watchdog agencies that advocated for

immigrants, calling them roadblocks to immigration enforcement. And that includes the Office for

Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of

the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, and the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration

Services Ombudsman.

Those agencies investigated complaints, including those about detention center conditions

and green card processing delays.

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin says the office's obstructed immigration

enforcement by adding bureaucratic hurdles and undermining the agency's mission. White House

advisor and tech billionaire Elon Musk met with Pete Hegsef, Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon

today, but the White House is denying a report from the New York Times

and confirmed by NPR that the original plan was for Musk to be briefed in the secure facility

known as the tank on sensitive Pentagon plans on China. As NPR's Tom Bowman reports, that didn't

happen. Musk instead went up to Hegeseth's office and spent about an hour

and a half there and Hegsteth declined to say what they talked about. Now, some Pentagon

officials I spoke with were told the scheduled tank meeting was for an unclassified briefing on

China. The Times, of course, reported that this discussion was set up to talk about war plans for China,

obviously very, very sensitive. And here's Tom Bowman. President Trump says he would never show

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