Iowa, on the Trump administration cutting taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal immigrants, planned layoffs for the State Department and the push to codify DOGE cuts.

Experts voice concerns that current measures could change "the National Park System irreparably for future generations."

The Supreme Court opened the way for the Trump administration to continue mass layoffs in the federal workforce in an emergency ruling Tuesday. The court’s decision lifts a lower court ruling that blocked the layoffs at government agencies that President Donald Trump initiated in a February executive order.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Donald Trump's administration to pursue mass government job cuts and the sweeping downsizing of numerous agencies, a decision that could lead to tens of thousands of layoffs while dramatically reshaping the federal bureaucracy.

Before Tuesday, a district court had barred the Trump administration from firing federal employees en masse as his executive order calling for “large-scale reductions in force” undergoes legal challenges.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a lower court order that blocked sweeping layoffs of federal workers at nearly two dozen agencies while a legal battle over President Trump's plans to drastically cut the size of the government moves forward.

U.S. diplomats in Washington are bracing for cuts to the State Department workforce, with dismissal notices expected to hit inboxes as soon as Friday, according to three State Department officials with knowledge of the plans.

President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, are expected to visit flood-ravaged areas of Central Texas on Friday to meet with emergency workers and survivors and to see disaster sites along the Guadalupe River.