An emergency ruling by a federal judge in California amounted to the broadest effort yet to halt the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal government.

A federal judge ordered a two-week pause, writing that a president must enlist the help of Congress “to make large-scale overhauls of federal agencies.”

A federal judge has issued a two-week pause on the Trump administration’s layoffs across the federal government, ruling that the effort to fire of thousands of workers and eliminate some agencies entirely cannot proceed for now.