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• Federal agencies can resume mass layoffs, Supreme Court rules - July 8, 2025

• By Eric Katz, Government Executive

  Federal agencies across government can resume laying off their employees en masse after the Supreme Court reversed a court order that barred those reductions, with several agencies likely to move swiftly to start cutting staff.
  
  The court once again ruled in favor of the Trump administration in its push to expand the president’s power to slash agency workforce rolls as he sees fit after it reversed a lower court order that impacted most major federal departments. Dozens of reduction-in-force actions were held up by the now-defunct injunction and agencies have been working behind the scenes to quickly resume those activities once that block fell.
  
  The case landed at the Supreme Court after a district judge in California ruled in favor of the unions, municipalities and advocacy groups that sued over Trump’s workforce reduction plans and an appeals court subsequently allowed that ruling to remain in place.

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