The Trump administration is expected on Friday to move ahead with a second wave of mass firings and budget cuts across the U.S. federal government after agencies were told to submit large-scale downsizing plans.

Few details were clear about how the sweeping cuts will be carried out, as the Trump administration prepared to work with agencies and DOGE to finalize plans.

Federal agencies have until Thursday to submit reduction-in-force plans that detail employee terminations as part of the Trump admin's pledge to streamline the government.

Trump is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act as part of the efforts to carry out mass deportations, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The Alien Enemies Act is a wartime law passed in 1798 as part of the Alien and Sedition Acts under President John Adams. It grants the U.S. president the authority to detain, rest

Donald Trump is preparing to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in order to speed up the process of mass deportations, four familiar sources have told CNN. The law gives the president enhanced authority to remove undocumented immigrants.