Along with rescissions hitting foreign aid, the new round of firings shows Trump is still bent on tearing down bipartisan foreign-policy traditions.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Donald Trump's administration to pursue mass government job cuts and the sweeping downsizing of numerous agencies, a decision that could lead to tens of thousands of layoffs while dramatically reshaping the federal bureaucracy.

The Supreme Court opened the way for the Trump administration to continue mass layoffs in the federal workforce in an emergency ruling Tuesday. The court’s decision lifts a lower court ruling that blocked the layoffs at government agencies that President Donald Trump initiated in a February executive order.