The U.S. Office of Personnel Management today sent a memo to federal agency heads directing them to turn over information about any department employees who've had poor performance reviews over the past three years.

OPM said it's "developing new performance metrics for evaluating the federal workforce that aligns with the priorities and standards in the President’s recent Executive Orders," and wants the information by March 7.

It directs "all agencies" to "submit data regarding their performance management plans and policies — including those contained in collective bargaining agreements — and to identify any barriers to ensuring that agency performance plans make meaningful distinctions based on relative employee performance and that the agency has the ability to swiftly terminate poor performing employees who cannot or will not improve."

Among the information it's demanding is the name, job title and pay of "all employees who received less than a 'fully successful' performance rating in the past three years." It also wants to know whether those employees are under or have already completed "a performance improvement plan" in the past year.

Minnesota lawmakers settled on a bipartisan power-sharing agreement in the state House, ending a weekslong political stalemate in one of the most closely divided legislative bodies in the country.

Under the drafted agreement, Republicans will control the speakership in the House, where the party currently holds a one-seat advantage. The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party secured assurances that Republicans wouldn’t block one of their members from being seated and would share power if the chamber returns, as expected, to a tie after a special election next month.

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With the Trump administration warning career lawyers to follow orders even if they have ethical qualms, pressure is building on professional legal associations to take a stance against efforts to upend long-standing norms of public service.

The effort by lawyers inside and outside of the government comes as Trump, in one of his initial executive orders, issued a warning to state and local bar associations suggesting they could be targeted for investigation over their diversity programs. Lawyers who spoke with NBC News said that order came across as a threat to keep quiet or risk consequences.

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The Senate will vote at 7 p.m. on Russell Vought's nomination to be Trump's director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a position Vought held in the last Trump administration.

Vought needs the support of a simple majority of senators and is expected to be confirmed.

Senate Democrats kept the chamber floor open overnight to give speeches against his nomination, which are ongoing. Vought has drawn the ire of Democratic lawmakers over his involvement in Project 2025, a policy blueprint for Trump's administration that was drafted by conservative organizations ahead of the election.

Vought also was criticized for testifying at his confirmation hearing that he believed Trump did not have to abide by Congress' direction on how to spend money it has authorized.

Vought is expected to be confirmed along party lines.

The U.S. military is sending another plane with high-threat migrants to Guantanamo Bay today, according to two U.S. defense officials. 

Today’s flight is expected to have 13 migrants, more than doubling the population there now, currently 10. 

Another flight is scheduled for tomorrow, the officials said, but the total number on board that flight is still to be determined. All flights are flying from Texas. 

It’s still not clear how long any of these migrants will be held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

The U.S. has now flown in more than 600 troops to the base to support the mission, the officials said. The troops have set up thousands of tents for migrants.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is expected to sign more deployment orders as early as today to send more logistics and other support troops to the base, with more people and resources arriving every day, the officials said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who met with Trump at the White House yesterday, said today that the president didn't give any indication that aid for wildfire recovery would be conditioned.

Newsom said that issue hadn't been discussed in private conversations, but added, “I’m mindful that any government appropriation, there’s expectations, and I think that’s part of the give and take.”

Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have suggested that they would only agree to emergency funding for wildfire recovery if it's conditioned, such as by altering forestry management and water conservation policies or instituting voter ID laws.

Responding to a federal judge pausing Trump’s federal employee buyout program, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells NBC News, “We are grateful to the Judge for extending the deadline so more federal workers who refuse to show up to the office can take the Administration up on this very generous, once-in-a-lifetime offer.”

Some U.S. Agency for International Development and State Department career employees are concerned information in their personal devices may be being monitored, several civil servants and foreign service officers tell NBC News. 

The career employees have received pop-up messages in the last few days warning them that information on their personal phones or laptops could be tracked.

“Your organization installed a certificate authority in your work profile. Your secure network traffic may be monitored or modified,” read one notification on an employee’s personal phone. 

A federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order blocking Trump’s executive order that seeks to limit birthright citizenship from taking effect.

Senior U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour granted the order, which was sought by Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon.

Yesterday, a federal judge in Maryland similarly issued a nationwide hold on the same executive order from Trump regarding birthright citizenship.