The Trump administration continues efforts to reshape the federal government. Here's a recap from Thursday

The Trump administration continued its efforts to reshape the federal government Thursday with new guidance from the Social Security Administration telling employees they cannot access “general news” websites from their work-issued devices effective immediately.

According to a memo obtained by CNN, employees are also prohibited from accessing sports websites and from online shopping. Any exceptions will have to be approved by the employee’s supervisor.

“These additional restrictions will help reduce risk and better protect the sensitive information entrusted to us in our many systems,” the agency wrote in the memo.

Here’s what else happened Thursday:

• Administration takes aim at lawsuits: The Trump administration is taking a shot at the onslaught of emergency lawsuits being filed against it by invoking a rarely used rule that can force people who challenge the government to post money at the start of a court case, according to a White House memo.
• Trump message to Cabinet heads: During a nearly 90-minute meeting one week after his first Cabinet meeting, Trump delivered a clear message to his Cabinet behind closed doors. He told his agency heads that while Elon Musk’s effort to slash the size and spending of the federal government has his full support, they are the ones, not Musk, who are in charge of staffing at their respective agencies. “Keep all the people you want, everybody that you need,” Trump told his Cabinet, as he recounted to reporters later in the Oval Office.
• Executive order on Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: President Donald Trump has officially established a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve through an executive order, according to an X post by David Sacks, the White House czar for AI and cryptocurrency. The Treasury Department will set up an office to administer the reserve, which will be capitalized with Bitcoin (BTC) forfeited to the government as part of criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceedings, according to the order.
• Judge gives Monday deadline on foreign aid: A federal judge said the Trump administration must, by Monday, pay back money owed to nonprofits and contractors who sued over a freeze on foreign aid for the work they had already completed.
• Immigration prosecutions: Newly installed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a directive to federal prosecutors and agents across the country on his first day in office: increase immigration prosecutions. Assistant United States attorneys “must commit to investigations and prosecutions targeting all of the insidious results of the four-year invasion of illegal immigration that we are now working to repel,” Blanche wrote in a message Thursday to department employees obtained by CNN, adding that more cases should be brought by prosecutors.