I personally believe that if Dan Bongino, who is, you know, he's an aggressive guy and he talked about this a lot. And if he, now as deputy director of the FBI says there's nothing there, I think it's reasonable to conclude there's nothing there.

Several of President Trump’s top officials went to work Monday with a key question unanswered: Would Dan Bongino show up for work today?

The fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files flap is cascading, further roiling a Justice Department and FBI that have struggled for months to appease the demands of far-right conservative personalities and influential members of President Donald Trump’s base.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino reportedly returned to work Monday, but his future in the Trump administration still remains unclear.

A lawsuit filed Monday against Trump, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and Office of Budgement Management Director Russell Vought claimed that the Trump administration had “caused chaos” for K-12 school districts by refusing to distribute funding to six long-standing grant programs.

Deputy FBI director Dan Bongino did not go into the office Friday and largely excommunicated himself from most of his colleagues after a major fallout with Attorney General Pam Bondi. CNN’s Evan Perez breaks down the situation and how it began over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

After a MAGA influencer speculated that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino would depart "in the next week," bettors try to predict who will leave the administration next.