Supreme Court paves path for Trump’s mass federal layoffs

The Trump administration can move forward with its plan to dramatically downsize the federal government workforce, the U.S. Supreme Court said in an order on Tuesday.

In an unsigned order, the justices lifted a lower court order that temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s plans to fire thousands of federal workers.

Two liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, said in the order that they were not ruling on the actual plans for downsizing; rather, they were just allowing the administration to move forward with its plan to direct agencies to create reorganization plans.

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