President Donald Trump's administration said some federal government employees who took the "Fork in the Road" buyout offer were then fired or let go — in error.

WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt is scheduled to speak to reporters on camera around 1:00 pm on Wednesday, as DOGE continues its work and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Ukraine must cede land for peace with Russia.

The wonky blogger drew the ire of White House comms staffer Alex Pfeiffer after he helped spread rumors that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was drinking while delivering a speech at a NATO summit earlier this week.

Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich has the latest on the Trump administration’s approach to resolving the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s controversial Brussels speech on ‘Special Report.

Drew Petrimoulx chats with The Hill’s White House columnist Niall Stanage about the first hearing for the House Oversight Committee’s Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) panel. Plus, hear from NewsNation’s national correspondent Robert Sherman on Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine in a peace deal with Russia.

"Less than a month into the new admin, and Matt is trying to make drinking water a scandal,” said Pfeiffer about the new Hegseth bourbon legend.

Bianca Facchinei chats with The Hill’s White House columnist Niall Stanage about the IRS firing 6,700 employees Thursday. They also touch on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directing senior Pentagon officials and military leaders to forge plans that would result in an 8 percent cut to the defense budget for each year over the next five years.

Officials are pushing back on the notion that the Department of Defense has a "list" of flag officers that Secretary Pete Hegseth plans to fire.

"Less than a month into the new admin, and Matt is trying to make drinking water a scandal,” said Pfeiffer about the new Hegseth bourbon legend. The post ‘Mouth-Breathing Idiot’: White House Staffer Flames Matthew Yglesias Over Hegseth ‘Bourbon’ Myth first appeared on Mediaite.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers asked Hegseth for justifications and transparency before any decisions to dismiss senior uniformed leaders.

The wonky blogger drew the ire of White House comms staffer Alex Pfeiffer after he helped spread rumors that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was drinking while delivering a speech at a NATO summit earlier this week.

Newly appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claims his family was targeted by the outgoing Biden administration with an audit from the IRS. “Of course the outgoing Biden IRS rushed an ‘audit’ of the incoming SecDef. Total sham,” Hegseth wrote on his official X account Monday, including a photo of an IRS document addressed to him and his wife.