Welcome to a week in the life of the Trump White House. Here’s the latest from that new controversy, which centers on Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Sessions announced Thursday that he will recuse himself from investigations related to the 2016 presidential campaign, including those focused on Russian interference, after The Washington Post reported he met twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States.

This was big news, particularly since the former Alabama senator did not disclose the meetings during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, even during a back-and-forth about contact between Russia and associates of Trump.

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“I did not have any communications with the Russians,” Sessions said at the time.

Having been a senior adviser to Trump’s campaign, Sessions was already facing calls from Democrats to step away from the Justice Department’s investigation of the election.

He came under additional pressure Thursday when several key Republicans agreed he should recuse himself from the probe. At that time, though, the White House pushed back against this idea. In an interview with Fox News, Trump spokesman Sean Spicer said that “people who are choosing to play partisan politics with this should be ashamed of themselves.”

Sessions’s deputy attorney general, the department’s second-highest-ranking official, will now be responsible for the FBI’s Russia investigation.

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As a reminder, this is the second time Trump was made to vouch for a top appointee “caught not telling the full truth about conversations with Moscow’s top man in Washington,” as our colleague wrote.

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TRUMP TOURS CARRIER, TALKS UP MILITARY SPENDING HIKE

Trump, who expressed “total” confidence in Sessions on Thursday, spent part of the day touring an aircraft carrier in Newport News, Va.

The visit gave Trump a platform to promote the significant increase in military spending he plans to propose in his budget — $54 billion, or a 10 percent bump, according to his aides.

The president did this standing aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford, which is set to become the Navy’s newest nuclear-powered warship.

“We will give our military the tools you need to prevent war and, if required, to fight war and only do one thing. You know what that is: Win. Win! We’re going to start winning again,” Trump said.

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As our colleague wrote, the event was part of a “road show” Trump has launched to underscore various priorities outlined in his speech to Congress on Tuesday night. On Friday, he will visit a Catholic school in Orlando to discuss school choice.

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CARSON, PERRY CONFIRMED TO CABINET POSTS

Under normal circumstances, the confirmation of a Cabinet secretary would be big news in Washington.

On Thursday, the Senate confirmed two secretaries in the space of a few hours and it barely registered given the bigger stories dominating the news cycle.

Here’s an update on the latest developments.

A handful of nominees are still working their way through the process. These include:

Robert Lighthizer, nominated for U.S. trade representative

Sonny Perdue, nominated for secretary of agriculture

Seema Verma, nominated for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Former senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.), nominated for director of national intelligence

R. Alexander Acosta, nominated for secretary of labor