The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is moving ahead with a plan to cut 10,000 jobs after the Supreme Court lifted a pause on the layoffs.

From Day One of his second term, Trump has made cutting costs by dismantling federal entities and their staffs a top priority. He created the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, to crumble key assistance agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The Trump administration asked the justices to set aside an injunction blocking its layoffs of 1,400 Education Department employees.

A Supreme Court decision giving the Trump administration the greenlight to lay off tens of thousands of employees threatens to reshape the federal workforce amid a broader battle over whether the

HHS faces other legal challenges over its workforce cuts. A class-action lawsuit in the U.S. Court for the District of Columbia claims the department relied on “hopelessly error-ridden” data when it carried out the mass terminations on April 1.