State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the agency is poised to move "quickly" after the Supreme Court shot down a lower court's ruling blocking the Trump administration from implementing widescale reductions in force across the federal government.

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's conservatives said it was a federal judge in San Francisco, not President Trump, who exceeded her authority.