Supreme Court ruling allows Trump’s federal cuts to proceed

The ruling temporarily suspends a lower court’s decision to block the Trump administration’s cuts after the Elon Musk-led U.S. DOGE Service moved with breakneck speed to fire workers and slash agency funding in the opening months of Trump’s second term.

The justices said they are not ruling on the legality of any of Trump’s reductions. The ruling was unsigned and did not disclose the vote count, although Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson released a public dissent.

“It is not this court’s role to swoop in and second-guess a lower court’s factual findings,” she wrote.

The DOGE cuts set off a wave of legal challenges regarding their constitutionality. The one the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday came from a group of labor unions, advocacy groups and local…