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The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with layoffs and restructuring of federal agencies, challenging the traditional job protections for civil servants, leading to widespread anxiety among federal employees and ongoing legal battles.
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with its plans to downsize the federal workforce and dismantle agencies, marking a significant step in the ongoing legal and political debate over presidential powers to reorganize government without congressional approval, despite dissent from Justice Jackson.
A federal appeals court blocked President Trump's plans to reorganize the government and fire federal workers, ruling that the administration lacked the statutory authority to carry out such large-scale layoffs and restructuring, and dismissing the government's legal arguments as insufficient.
Several significant laws will take effect in Iowa on July 1. These include a government reorganization law that reduces the number of cabinet-level agencies, an education reform law banning teaching gender identity in certain grades and requiring the removal of certain books from school libraries, a child labor law allowing younger teens to work longer hours and serve alcohol in restaurants, harsher penalties for dealing with fentanyl, and a ban on mail-in caucuses, which will impact Iowa Democrats' plans for their caucus structure.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds is expected to sign a government reorganization bill that will reduce the number of state agencies from 37 to 16, with the aim of making the government more efficient. However, Democrats have criticized the bill, saying it will give the governor too much power and take away some services from Iowans. The bill is over 1,500 pages long and Reynolds is set to sign it on Tuesday in Des Moines.