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Lower-court judges have already blocked several Trump's policies including an asylum ban at the US-Mexico border.
The White House is looking for any possible way to discredit Jerome Powell right now," said Stephen Moore, an informal Trump economic adviser.
The Tuesday decision said that Trump's executive order directing agencies to develop workforce reduction plans is likely lawful.
Seven lawyers who spoke with Reuters cited a punishing workload and the need to defend policies that some felt were not legally justifiable among the key reasons for the wave of departures.