Tonight, exactly one month into Trump 2.0, his administration is stepping up the mass firing of federal employees.

While Elon Musk defends the doge cuts to government agencies and pledges MAGA loyalty to conservative activists.

Plus, the Senate confirms one of Trump's most controversial picks to be in charge of the FBI as the 11th hour gets underway on this Thursday night.

Good evening. Once again, I'm Stephanie Ruhl. It is day 32 of the second Trump administration, and it has been one month since Trump's inauguration. So let's get

into everything that has happened in just the last 24 hours, including just tonight. The Washington

Post reports that Trump is getting ready to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service

and absorb the currently independent agency into his administration. The agency would be controlled by the

Commerce Department and its secretary, Howard Lettnick. NBC News has not yet confirmed that reporting.

Earlier today, the Senate confirmed Trump loyalists and hard-lined FBI critic Cash Patel as the

Bureau's director. Republicans Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins joined Democrats in voting no.

But Mitch McConnell, who just announced he will retire

at the end of his term next year,

well, he voted yes.

And Trump's mass firings across the federal government

are still piling up even higher.

Both the IRS and the TSA let go hundreds of employees earlier today. Tonight, two sources at

Housing and Urban Development tell NBC News that they are also expecting. For them, it is up to

half of the department's 9,000 employees to be cut next. And this afternoon, a federal judge said

he could not block the administration's mass

firings. He told the employees' unions to take their case to an independent agency that

handles those kind of claims. But this evening, we are keeping an especially close eye on

American foreign policy and the world's reaction to President Trump's repeated lies about how the war in Ukraine began

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