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. government, just one day after two federal judges ordered the reinstatement of thousands of workers.

The scale of the Trump administration's legal battles continued to expand this week, with a federal judge ordering the government to rehire potentially thousands of probationary workers and the administration turning to the Supreme Court to combat the large number of nationwide injunctions slowing its agenda.