On March 27, 2025, Senators Wicker and Reed requested an inquiry into the Department of Defense's potential use of unclassified networks for sensitive and classified information. This includes the sharing of such information with individuals lacking proper clearance. A lawsuit was also filed alleging White House officials used apps like Signal and Confide to delete messages, violating the Presidential Records Act.

On March 27, 2025, reports highlighted the Trump administration's inconsistent handling of classified information. They invoked state secrets privilege to withhold information about a Venezuelan migrant deportation while downplaying the disclosure of a planned military strike's timing on an unsecured Signal group chat.

In March 2025, it was revealed that top members of Donald Trump’s administration disclosed secret US military plans against the Houthi militia in Yemen in a private Signal group chat that included a journalist. A top Senate Republican wants the Pentagon watchdog to investigate the Signal chat, and Trump is reportedly fuming about Mike Waltz's role in it. Judge James E. Boasberg ordered Trump administration officials to preserve all messages exchanged on Signal regarding the pending attack. American Oversight claims the Trump administration's use of Signal violated the Federal Records Act.

On March 27, 2025, it was reported that during his first term, President Trump took a photograph of a satellite image of an Iranian launch site that had been included in his daily intelligence brief and posted it on social media. During a meeting in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump shared a tip with the Russian foreign minister from Israeli intelligence about a terror plot. When Mr. Trump left office, he stacked classified documents in a bathroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

A DHS staffer faces serious punishment for accidentally adding a reporter to a group email. The agency intends to revoke the employee's security clearance, raising questions about unequal punishment for inadvertent leakers.

On March 27, 2025, controversy arose regarding US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's Arabic tattoo, which critics argue is a symbol of Islamophobia. This coincides with calls for Hegseth's resignation due to his alleged involvement in the Signal leak, which revealed US military plans.

Trump threatens more tariffs on the E.U. and Canada, including imposing a 25% tariff on all foreign-made cars, light trucks, and auto parts, effective April 3rd. The tariffs could significantly increase car prices. Mexican authorities are working to prevent President Trump's planned 25% tariffs on imported automobiles and auto parts, set to take effect on April 3, 2025.

On March 27, 2025, it was reported that 10,000 Federal Health Department workers are to be laid off. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced sweeping cuts to federal health programs, including the CDC, FDA, and NIH, reducing the HHS workforce from 82,000 to 62,000. Former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden criticized Kennedy's plans, and former NIH official Nate Brought voiced concerns about the potential negative impact on research.

On March 27, 2025, Elon Musk and his aides from the Department of Government Efficiency appeared on Fox News, presenting themselves as public servants focused on improving America's financial situation. They are aiming for daily savings of $4 billion and a $1 trillion deficit reduction, with Musk expressing optimism about America's future financial health.

On March 27, 2025, news emerged that the Trump administration established an email address for fossil fuel companies to directly request presidential exemptions from Clean Air Act regulations. The EPA website provides a template for these requests, which can last up to two years and be renewed.

On March 27, 2025, the Justice Department is proposing a restructuring plan that includes combining the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) into a single agency. This is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to reduce the size and scope of federal agencies. Lawyers in the public integrity section, which handles public corruption cases, will be reassigned.

On March 27, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order to end federal funding for Smithsonian exhibitions and programs based on racial themes. The order directs Vice President JD Vance to remove "improper ideology" from the Smithsonian’s 19 museums and the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and seeks to restore public monuments and statues removed or changed since Jan. 1, 2020. Trump's actions against the Smithsonian Institution are part of a wider effort to reshape cultural institutions he views as overly liberal.

On March 27, 2025, Georgia's Senate approved an investigation into Stacey Abrams, spurred by President Trump's criticism and ethics violations by the New Georgia Project. The Senate voted 33-21 along party lines to approve the inquiry.

Trump is targeting foreign-born college students, with 300 visas revoked. Some students have been picked up off the street and held in detention centers, sometimes 1,000 miles from their homes. ICE detained a University of Alabama doctoral student as the government's college crackdown continues, and federal agents detained and revoked the student visa of a Turkish graduate student. Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student at Tufts University, was detained by ICE officials and accused of supporting Hamas, leading to the termination of her student visa.

On March 26, 2025, a judge in Washington DC blocked the Trump administration from implementing a ban on transgender people serving in the military. Judge Ana Reyes criticized the implementation plan, which required 1.3 million military personnel to self-report annually whether they had experienced gender dysphoria.

On March 27, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched an investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) for potential 2nd Amendment violations. This is due to excessive fees and wait times for concealed carry permits, citing an 18-month delay mentioned in a lawsuit.

On March 27, 2025, it was reported that Judge Boasberg has temporarily barred the Trump administration from using a wartime statute to deport Venezuelan immigrants without due process, leading to calls for his impeachment by Mr. Trump and his allies. A federal appeals court said it would not lift an order barring the Trump administration from deporting immigrants to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

On March 26, 2025, the ninth US circuit court of appeals refused to pause a judge’s earlier ruling which required the Trump administration to reinstate more than 17,000 probationary employees at six agencies who lost their jobs as part of Trump’s purge of the federal workforce. The decision applies to workers at the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior and the treasury department.

On March 27, 2025, Trump criticized Judge Boasberg's assignment to cases involving him, calling it “disgraceful.” Pam Bondi also suggested Boasberg should be removed from the Signal case. Trump falsely claimed it was statistically impossible for Boasberg to be assigned the Signal chat case and other significant matters involving him; Boasberg clarified he was assigned the case through a random selection process.

On March 26, 2025, Judge James Boasberg, who has been targeted by Trump, was assigned to a lawsuit alleging Trump officials violated federal record-keeping laws by using a Signal group chat to discuss looming military action against Yemen’s Houthis.

On March 26, 2025, the government appeared to violate a federal court order when it transferred Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student in Boston detained on Tuesday by federal immigration agents in response to her pro-Palestinian activism, to the South Louisiana immigration processing center. The transfer of Ozturk would seem to violate a court order issued on Tuesday which directed the Department of Homeland Security and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to give the court 48 hours’ notice before attempting to take Ozturk out of Massachusetts.

As of March 2025, five consecutive US administrations have ordered military attacks on Yemen, continuing two decades of failed US policies. The Trump administration says the latest US strikes on Yemen are intended to pressure the Houthi militia to stop attacks on international shipping lanes in the Red Sea, following Houthi attacks in support of Palestinians after the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023. Trump cabinet members expressed disdain for European allies and debated the timing of US attacks on the Houthis, without considering a renewed ceasefire in Gaza.

Dorothy Shea, the deputy U.S. ambassador to the U.N., has been the face of America’s mission in New York during the transition. The vacancy of a permanent U.S. ambassador was happening at a critical moment for the international body.

On March 27, 2025, Trump restored funding for Radio Free Europe and reinstated 33 employees for a Cuban radio station.

On March 27, 2025, President Trump withdrew Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to maintain every Republican seat in Congress. Trump stated that Stefanik is vital to his efforts and asked her to remain in Congress, as the House Republicans currently hold 218 seats, while the Democrats hold 213. Democrats' upset in a Pennsylvania state Senate seat gave the GOP pause regarding Stefanik's nomination.

On March 27, 2025, the Associated Press (AP) renewed its request to a federal judge for reinstatement to the White House press pool, arguing that the Trump administration's ban is a fundamental attack on freedom of speech. President Trump dismissed the AP as a group of “radical left lunatics” and stated, “we’re going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it’s the Gulf of America.” The Trump administration has taken several aggressive moves against the press since his return to office.

On March 27, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi deflected questions about the Justice Department's plans regarding the sharing of military operation details, stating the mission was ultimately a success. Bondi stated that a criminal investigation into the sharing of military operation details in an unsecured text group is unlikely.

Elise Stefanik is the fourth Trump administration nominee who didn’t make it through the confirmation process. Previously, former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration for attorney general, Chad Chronister was pulled for the Drug Enforcement Administration, and former Florida congressman Dr. David Weldon was yanked from contention to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

On March 27, 2025, it was reported that Texas Democrat Vicente Gonzalez is co-chair of a congressional caucus that has promoted El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele. The caucus’s X account reposted calls to “impeach the corrupt judges”.