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A medical nonprofit group is suing the Trump administration over the sudden removal of health information from multiple government websites, alleging the change creates a “a dangerous gap in the scientific data” needed to monitor and respond to disease outbreaks.

Advocacy group Doctors for America filed the lawsuit against the Office of Personnel Management, Centers for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration, and Department of Health and Human Services, asking a federal court in Washington to order the government to restore the webpages and datasets.

“The removal of the webpages and datasets creates a dangerous gap in the scientific data available to monitor and respond to disease outbreaks, deprives physicians of resources that guide clinical practice, and takes away key resources for communicating and engaging with patients,” the lawsuit said.

-ABC News’ Eric Strauss and Peter Charalambous

Senate Republicans defended the Trump administration’s sweeping revamp of USAID, led by Elon Musk. But, some lawmakers tried to downplay the billionaire’s power over the president.

"In terms of any decisions made, those are made by the president or the secretary,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told ABC News. “If Musk wants to make recommendations, wants to go and say, you know, 'We ought to cancel this, we ought to cancel that,' that's fine."

Hawley dismissed Musk's framing that he has more authority, calling it "a form of self-promotion."

Other GOP lawmakers defended the administration’s decision to gut a congressionally appropriated agency.

“My message to my Democratic friends and to the tofu-eating 'wokerati' at USAID is, ‘I hear your question, but you need to call somebody who cares,'" Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana told reporters.

Sen. Thom Tillis R-N.C., told ABC News he doesn't have any concerns about Musk's role in the federal government.

"Everybody is acting like Congress doesn't exist anymore. Many of the things he's thinking about will require congressional approval to actually structurally change them," he claimed, adding that reporters are asking questions about "the old way of doing things."

"We've got oversight. If it goes too far I'll be the first person to step up he went too far," Tillis added.

-ABC News' Jay O'Brien, Rachel Scott, Allison Pecorin, Isabella Murray and Lalee Ibssa

At least 20,000 federal workers - roughly 1% of the civilian federal workforce - have accepted the deferred resignation offer to leave the federal government since last week, an official with the Trump Administration told ABC News.

It’s unclear how many of the workers were already planning to retire, or eligible to retire in the coming months.

The administration had previously said they hoped 5-10% of the federal workforce would take the offer to announce retirement now and receive pay and benefits through Sept. 30.

-ABC News' Ben Siegel

A group of FBI agents who assisted in criminal investigations stemming from the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol filed suit Tuesday in an effort to block the Justice Department from assembling lists of agents for potential disciplinary actions or firings.

The class-action lawsuit, filed anonymously by the agents in D.C. federal court, includes screenshots showing the survey sent this week about their actions related to the Jan. 6 cases.

"Plaintiffs are employees of the FBI who worked on Jan. 6 and/or Mar-a-Lago cases, and who have been informed that they are likely to be terminated in the very near future (the week of February 3-9, 2025) for such activity," the lawsuit said. "They intend to represent a class of at least 6,000 current and former FBI agents and employees who participated in some manner in the investigation and prosecution of crimes and abuses of power by Donald Trump, or by those acting at his behest."

The suit specifically seeks to enjoin the DOJ from "aggregation, storage, reporting, publication or dissemination of any list or compilation of information that would identify FBI agents and other personnel, and tie them directly to Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago case activities."

-ABC News' Aaron Katersky, Pierre Thomas and Alexander Mallin