Trump admin updates: Trump plans to issue executive order to require voter ID

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify before the Senate Finance Committee next week, two aides confirmed to ABC News. It is scheduled to focus on "The President's 2026 Health Care Agenda."

It's unclear if the hearing was in the works before the recent staffing shakeups at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but Democrats on the panel are likely to focus their questions on the White House's recent efforts to oust CDC Director Susan Monarez and other high-profile departures at the agency.

The hearing will come as a number of Democrats are calling for Kennedy's resignation.

The Senate returns to Washington from its monthlong August recess on Tuesday. The Senate Finance Committee hearing is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 4, at 10 a.m. ET.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook on Thursday sued President Donald Trump over his attempt to fire her from the Board of Governors, challenging the effort and asking a judge to block it.

The suit, filed in the D.C. district court, also names Chairman Jerome Powell, and the Board of Governors as defendants.

-ABC News' Olivia Rubin

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would not comment Thursday on the situation over CDC Director Susan Monarez's job but said that President Donald Trump has "ambitious hopes" for the CDC, signaling the president's alignment with him.

"I will say is President Trump has very, very ambitious hopes for what for the CDC right now. CDC has problems," Kennedy said in a "Fox and Friends" interview, before he made unproven claims about the pandemic.

Kennedy, who has no formal medical training or experience, also said that the priorities of the CDC need to be reexamined.

"If there's really a deeply, deeply embedded, I would say, malaise at the agency, and we need strong leadership that will go in there, and that will be able to execute on President Trump's broad ambitions," he said.

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie and Cheyenne Haslett

Trump says Utah redistricting ruling is ‘absolutely Unconstitutional’

Trump claimed on his social media platform that the ruling by a Utah judge Monday that the state legislature will have to redraw its congressional map is "absolutely Unconstitutional.”

"All Citizens of Utah should be outraged at their activist Judiciary, which wants to take away our Congressional advantage, and will do everything possible to do so," Trump said.

The judge’s decision could benefit Democrats heading into the 2026 midterm elections.

Currently, Salt Lake City is split between the state’s four congressional districts, dividing Democratic votes among the districts that back Republicans.

But the judge determined that the map was drawn in violation of an independent redistricting commission approved by voters in 2018.

-ABC News’ Michelle Stoddart and Oren Oppenheim