The Supreme Court granted a request from the Trump administration to continue a pause on foreign aid.

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Thursday, February 27th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

Last night, the government faced a midnight deadline to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid payments.

Those payments have been suspended for weeks.

But late yesterday, the Supreme Court's Chief Justice John Roberts granted a request from the administration to extend that deadline. President Donald Trump halted aid to organizations

who work in impoverished parts of the world last month. That left millions of people at risk of

hunger and illness and thousands of employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development without jobs.

Some were stranded in dangerous places around the world.

A lower court had ruled that the government had to fulfill its contractual obligations for work that had been completed.

But now the extended deadline will allow

time for a full Supreme Court review. This is the second time the new administration has asked

the Supreme Court to intervene after a lower court judge blocked Trump's efforts to reshape the

federal government.

Elon Musk's Doge team is barreling toward a fresh round of firings. That's number two.

Musk is on a mission to slash the federal workforce.

Thousands of jobs have been eliminated in the first month of Trump's administration at a number of agencies, and the effort is about to ramp up even further.

Yesterday, the Post reported that Doge is preparing to strike entire categories of jobs from the federal workforce.

The firings will target entire teams across most agencies.

In a memo, officials said some positions will be exempt, including those that are necessary to meet law enforcement and national security responsibilities.

And yesterday, Musk attended the first cabinet meeting of Trump's second term.

At the meeting, he made this pretty alarming claim.

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