In a landmark decision the U.S. Supreme Court in a 8-1 ruling cleared the way for President Donald Trump to slash federal workforce in any department.
In an 8-1 decision, with only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting, the high court struck down Judge Illston’s May 22 Temporary Restraining Order (TRO), which had halted sweeping layoffs and organizational overhauls across 20 federal agencies.
The Supreme Court’s decision immediately frees the Trump administration to resume implementing its long-awaited Reduction-in-Force (RIF) measures and agency streamlining efforts aimed at trimming waste, cutting bureaucratic bloat, and restoring accountability to the federal workforce.
The original TRO was issued in response to a lawsuit brought by the AFL-CIO and the American Federation of Government Employees, two major left-wing public sector unions whose political influence has long shielded inefficient and redundant federal programs from reform.
In February, President Trump signed a bold executive order authorizing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to initiate a comprehensive review and restructuring of 20 executive agencies.
The goal: to eliminate overlapping offices, dismantle outdated and politically entrenched programs, and slash bloated payrolls that have ballooned under decades of unchecked bureaucratic growth.
Judge Illston, in her ruling, claimed that President