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Supreme Court Greenlights Layoffs: What It Means for Federal Employees

UNITED STATES, JUL 9 – The Supreme Court lifted a lower court injunction, allowing the Trump administration to proceed with workforce reductions affecting hundreds of thousands of federal employees across multiple agencies.

  • Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court lifted the lower court injunction, allowing sweeping federal layoffs and restructuring to proceed amid ongoing litigation.
  • The Supreme Court lifted the May injunction that halted Trump’s February executive order for agency mass layoffs and restructuring, enabling plans to proceed amid ongoing litigation.
  • The justices noted the administration was 'likely to succeed' in arguing the order’s legality, while Justice Jackson called the decision 'hubristic and senseless' in her dissent.
  • Following the Court's decision, over 1,500 State Department employees will receive RIF notices on Thursday evening, marking the start of immediate layoffs amid ongoing agency restructuring.
  • Across agencies, AFGE warns of hundreds of thousands of job losses, including 80,000 at VA, 40% of IRS workforce, and at least 10,000 at HHS amid ongoing legal challenges.
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Politico broke the news in on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.
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