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The Trump administration said it would move quickly to challenge such injunctions. However, the ruling by the court's 6-3 conservative majority contained exceptions, allowing federal judges to continue to issue sweeping rulings blocking key parts of the Republican president's agenda. [...] In the short time since the ruling, lower-court judges have already blocked Trump's asylum ban at the U.S.-Mexico border, prevented his administration from ending temporary deportation protections for Haitian migrants and forced the government to restore health websites deemed to run afoul of Trump's efforts to squash "gender ideology."

In addition to laying off employees, The Verge reported Rosenberg as saying that NOAA has canceled a lease for the building which houses the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) in Maryland, which produces information for the National Weather Service, Air Force, Navy, and Federal Aviation Administration. As confirmed by an anonymous NOAA employee, NOAA has also canceled a lease for the Radar Operations Center in Normon, Oklahoma.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick oversees the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its subsidiary, the National Weather Service. But until recently, he also ran a financial firm, Cantor Fitzgerald (which he placed under the stewardship of his two twentysomething sons), that invests in companies vying to replace the weather agencies’ labor.