The justices granted the administration's emergency appeal seeking permission to enforce a Feb. 11 executive order that instructed agencies to carry out dramatic “reductions in force.”

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to move forward with an executive order mandating a restructure of federal agencies and mass layoffs of workers.

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.