Trump administration updates: Schumer continues to face calls for new leadership

A federal judge on Thursday blocked the deportation of Georgetown researcher Badar Khan Suri from the U.S.

U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles issued an order barring Suri's deportation "unless and until the Court issues a contrary order."

According to court filings, Suri is currently being held at Farmville Detention Center in Virginia, but one of his attorneys told ABC News that he is being held in Louisiana.

Assistant Secretary Dept. of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin alleged that Suri was "spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media" and had "close connections to a known or suspected terrorist."

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

Just before he signed the executive order, President Donald Trump said his administration would preserve "useful functions" of the Department of Education and shift them to other agencies -- such as Pell Grants and funding for children with special needs.

"But beyond these core necessities, my administration will take all lawful steps to shut down the department," he said. "We're going to shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible. It's doing us no good. We want to return our students to the states, where just some of the governors here are so happy about this. They want education to come back to them, to come back to the states, and they're going to do a phenomenal job."

President Donald Trump is currently holding an education event in the White House East Room. Children were seated at desks alongside Trump as he spoke, with officials like Education Secretary Linda McMahon in the audience.

"In a few moments, I will sign an executive order to begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all, " Trump said. "And it sounds strange, doesn't it? Department of Education. We're going to eliminate it."

He also took a moment to introduce McMahon, who he said was "extraordinary."

"Hopefully she will be our last education secretary," he said.

A federal judge has blocked DOGE from accessing sensitive records maintained by the Social Security Administration.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander issued a temporary restraining order that requires Elon Musk and DOGE to destroy any information from the SSA in their possession that identifies individual taxpayers.

Hollander is continuing to allow DOGE to access anonymized data from the Social Security administration.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous