A U.S. district judge in San Francisco had temporarily blocked large-scale federal layoffs known as "reductions in force."

Handing President Donald Trump another victory, the U.S. Supreme Court gave the go-ahead on Tuesday for his administration to pursue mass federal job cuts potentially numbering in the hundreds of thousands and the restructuring of numerous agencies.

The Supreme Court has issued an order allowing the Trump administration to move ahead with its plans to slash the federal workforce. Hofstra University Law Professor James Sample and Washington Post Chief Correspondent Dan Balz join Chris Jansing with reaction to the high court’s decision.