WASHINGTON ¨C The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Donald Trump¡¯s administration to pursue mass government job cuts and the sweeping downsizing of numerous agencies, a decision that could lead to tens of thousands of layoffs while dramatically reshaping the federal bureaucracy.
Tuesday¡¯s ruling stemmed from an executive order Trump issued in February ordering agencies to prepare for mass layoffs. At Trump¡¯s direction, the administration has come up with plans to reduce staff at the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human Services, State, Treasury, Veterans Affairs and more than a dozen other agencies.
In a brief unsigned order, the court said the Trump administration was ¡°likely to succeed¡± in its argument that his directives were legally within his power.
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