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

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.

Tens of thousands of federal workers have been fired, have left their jobs via deferred resignation programs, or have been placed on leave.