President Donald Trump's administration has told a federal judge that it cannot be ordered to disclose federal agencies' reorganization and mass layoff plans as part of a lawsuit seeking to block them from being implemented.

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.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is laying off certain employees that were notified months ago of the reduction in force (RIF) after the Supreme Court lifted a district court order blocking the layoffs, an agency spokesperson confirmed to Fierce Biotech.

The Trump administration will reduce planned federal worker layoffs, a personnel official said on Monday, after tens of thousands of employees accepted buyouts or retired early to avoid dismissal.

Layoffs will be implemented at USC, interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a letter to the university's faculty and staff on Monday.

Veterans have historically had a lower unemployment rate than non-veterans. But one driver has shifted significantly this year: job cuts across the federal workforce, which the Trump administration has sought in what it describes as an effort to make the government leaner and more efficient.

A U.S. diplomat laid off from the State Department after over 20 years says cutting the types of programs she worked on will be “devastating” to U.S. foreign policy and national security. The layoffs are part of a mass reorganization of the federal agency,

The White House is scrutinizing layoff plans by federal agencies in an effort to limit further court challenges after the Supreme Court cleared the way for a sweeping downsizing of the government workforce,