The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Trump to destroy the Department of Education. In May, a federal judge in Massachusetts issued an injunction barring the administration from firing 1,300 of the just over 4,000 employees of the agency.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of their jobs.