The Pentagon joined the scramble by federal agencies trying to conform to President Trump’s war on diversity programs.

Early in his first administration, President Trump noted the general’s “brilliance and fortitude.” And then the president got angry.

“Whatever is needed at the border will be provided,” Pete Hegseth, the new defense secretary, told reporters on Monday.

The removal of a portrait of Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from a Pentagon hallway was among the president’s early actions.

The decision was an early salvo by the new administration against a military that President Trump has assailed for a variety of perceived offenses.

The Treasury Department also released an additional $3.4 billion in budget aid as the Biden administration rushes assistance to Kyiv in its final weeks in office.

Marc Fogel was convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced in 2022 to 14 years in prison by the same court that handled the case of Brittney Griner.

The North Korean losses amount to almost 10 percent of the country’s deployment to Russia, the Biden administration said.