Trump admin asks Supreme Court to get mass layoffs executed

But the Justice Department argued in its filing to the Supreme Court that the “Constitution does not erect a presumption against presidential control of agency staffing.”

“The president does not need special permission from Congress to exercise core Article II powers,” it added, as quoted by Reuters.

It further argued that the order interferes with the Executive Branch’s internal operations, CBS reported.

“More concretely, the injunction has brought to a halt numerous in-progress RIFs at more than a dozen federal agencies, sowing confusion about what RIF-related steps agencies may take and compelling the government to retain — at taxpayer expense — thousands of employees whose continuance in federal service the agencies deem not to be in the government and public interest,” the filing read, as quoted by the news outlet.

Block to Trump’s plans

Trump’s plan for large-scale workforce cuts was announced in February. It led to various federal agencies cutting their workforce, or making plans to do so, before the Illston block.