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Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with large-scale government agency staff cuts, reorganizations

UNITED STATES, JUL 8 – The Supreme Court lifted a freeze on federal workforce cuts after legal challenges, with at least 75,000 deferred resignations and cuts up to 50% at some agencies, officials said.

  • On Tuesday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with large-scale federal job cuts and agency reorganizations that had previously been temporarily blocked by lower courts.
  • This ruling follows a legal battle after Trump signed an executive order in mid-February to significantly downsize federal agencies, which labor unions and nonprofits challenged in court.
  • The San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied the administration's May 30 request to halt a lower court order that blocked layoffs and ordered reinstatement of affected workers.
  • The courts warned that allowing the reorganization would abolish numerous programs and could cut hundreds of thousands of federal jobs by 40% to 50% at key agencies.
  • The Supreme Court's decision suggests the administration’s workforce changes fall within presidential authority, despite dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson who called the actions legally dubious.
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By John Fritze and Tami Luhby, CNN The Supreme Court on Tuesday backed President Donald Trump's effort to carry out mass layoffs and reorganizations at federal agencies, halting a lower court order that had temporarily blocked the president from taking such steps without congressional approval. The decision is the latest in a series of significant victories for Trump at the Supreme Court, including a ruling that makes it harder to challenge exec…

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A judge had ruled in May to temporarily suspend large-scale layoffs of federal government employees.

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The Hill broke the news in Washington, United States on Tuesday, April 8, 2025.
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