FILE PHOTO: Protesters gather during a protest against the mass firings of employees in a campaign by President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk to radically cut back the U.S. bureaucracy, at Fort Mason Park in San Francisco, California, U.S. March 1, 2025. REUTERS/Yuri Avila/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is expected on Friday to move ahead with a second wave of mass firings and budget cuts across the U.S. federal government even as two federal judges ordered it to reinstate thousands of federal workers.
Before those rulings on Thursday, federal agencies faced a Thursday deadline to submit large-scale downsizing plans as part of Trump's push to radically remake the federal bureaucracy, a task he has largely left to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
