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 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.

Justices lifted pause on efforts to slash jobs at federal agencies, including the CDC and the Social Security Administration.