Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with large-scale staff cuts for now
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🗓️ 9 July 2025
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USA TODAY Supreme Court Correspondent Maureen Groppe breaks down the high court's move to lift a federal judge's order pausing the Trump administration's large-scale staffing cuts.
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| 0:19.7 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Wednesday, July 9th, 2025. This is USA Today's The Exert. |
| 0:29.8 | Today taking a look at a high court decision on Trump cuts, plus did officials get forecasting |
| 0:34.8 | right last week ahead of Texas floods? |
| 0:40.4 | And a group looks into bringing back an extinct New Zealand bird. |
| 0:48.1 | The Supreme Court yesterday sided with the Trump administration for now when it comes to large-scale staff cuts. I spoke with USA Today, Supreme Court correspondent Maureen for more. |
| 0:53.3 | Hello, Maureen. |
| 0:54.4 | Hello. All right, so, Maureen, what did, for more. Hello, Maureen. Hello. |
| 0:55.4 | All right, so Maureen, what did the court decide here? |
| 0:57.3 | The court said that the administration can move ahead with its plans for large-scale layoffs |
| 1:02.3 | and restructuring at multiple federal agencies. It was a short opinion, which is common, |
| 1:07.2 | and these opinions which come from what's called the emergency docket, these quick |
| 1:11.0 | appeals to the Supreme Court. But the justices noted that they were not ruling on whether |
| 1:16.4 | any specific plan for an agency is legal. They only said that the federal judge who had blocked |
| 1:22.4 | the administration from moving forward in all cases should not have done so. All right. |
| 1:27.5 | Walk us through the arguments from the majority and the dissenting side on this, if you |
| 1:31.0 | would. |
| 1:32.0 | Well, the underlying issue is whether the changes are so great that agencies can't function |
| 1:36.7 | as Congress intended. |
| 1:38.3 | Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she agreed to lift this judge's hole because the justices right |
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