President Donald Trump announced on Monday that Michael Ellis will serve as the deputy director of the CIA.

Ellis served on the White House National Security Council during Trump's first term and was general counsel of the House Intelligence Committee under former GOP Rep. Devin Nunes.

The American Civil Liberties Union and other immigration advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the current administration on Monday over President Donald Trump’s move to suspend asylum after claiming there is an “invasion” on the U.S.- Mexico border.

According to the complaint, Trump invoked an authority known as 212(f), which authorizes the president to “suspend the entry of all noncitizens” when their entry “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”

However, the groups argue the authority does not empower the president to “summarily expel noncitizens already physically present in the U.S.” or “override the protections Congress has afforded those fleeing danger.”

"Under the proclamation, there is no longer any pathway to seek asylum,” said Lee Gelernt, ACLU lead counsel, in a statement. “The President is giving the back of his hand to Congress, who over the past four plus decades has meticulously created an asylum system for those fleeing grave danger. There is no invasion, much less one that justifies wiping away the entire asylum system.”

The groups also argued the move by Trump allows for the expedited removal of unaccompanied migrant children, despite “specific protections such children receive by statute."

“This is an unprecedented power grab that will put countless lives in danger,” Gelernt's statement said.

-ABC News' Laura Romero and Armando Tonatiuh Torres-García

President Donald Trump could soon sign an executive order directing the secretary of education to dismantle the Department of Education, according to sources briefed on drafts of the order that have circulated among top administration officials.

Signing such an executive order would help the president inch closer to sending education back to the states.

The timing on when Trump plans to sign it remains unclear, but sources familiar with the process told ABC News that conversations about the future of the department are actively occurring.

Sources have also told ABC News any executive action is likely to ask for a plan to be submitted, not an immediate directive to shut down the department. After an acceptable plan is submitted, Congress would need to pass the necessary legislation in order to shutter the DOE.

A Senate bill to shutter the DOE would likely fail without a two-thirds majority vote.

It’s unclear how the next education secretary might handle plans to close the department and reallocate its functions. Trump’s pick for the role, Linda McMahon, has not yet had a Senate confirmation hearing.

-ABC News' Arthur Jones II and Katherine Faulders

Although Sec. of State Marco Rubio wrote a letter casting the State Department’s absorption of USAID as only a possibility at this point, several sources familiar with the administration’s plans and the inner workings of the State Department tell ABC News that the process is already well underway.

As part of the merger, USAID is expected to undergo drastic cuts to its funding, programs and staffing, according to two officials, who say initial plans call for agency personnel to be reduced by as much as 70%.

Even current and former USAID employees who previously thought folding the agency into the State Department wasn’t the worst idea now say they’re dismayed by how this is being carried out.

"They could have just moved it over, but instead they crashed it and now they’re going to drag over the scraps," a former USAID employee told ABC News. "People are going to die because of how they’re doing this. And that shouldn’t be forgotten."

-ABC News' Shannon Kingston, Katherine Faulders and Will Steakin