US EditionSupreme 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…
Court clears way for Trump's plans to downsize federal workforce
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Supreme Court ruling opens door for Trump mass firings of government employees
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a lower court's block on Trump's ability to fire tens of thousands of federal workers without congressional approval, opening the door for a drastic reorganization of federal agencies.
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Los Angeles TimesSupreme Court OKs Trump's mass layoffs of federal employees across more than a dozen agencies
The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for the Trump administration to lay off tens of thousands of federal employees and downsize their agencies without seeking the approval of Congress.
A judge had ruled in May to temporarily suspend large-scale layoffs of federal government employees.
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