A court-ordered pause in May covered nearly two dozen federal agencies at different stages of executing President Trump’s directive for mass layoffs. The Supreme Court said the administration could proceed.

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed President Donald Trump yet another victory - this time in his effort to restructure the federal work force and fire tens of thousands of employees. The court, in a ruling that was not signed and did not reveal a vote count,

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to fire federal workers.The big picture: The decision, which lifts a federal judge's earlier order freezing the cuts, gives the administration power to resume its goal of reshaping and scaling back federal agencies.