Layoffs and departures after pressure from the Trump administration have left sites struggling, with the remaining employees each doing the work of two or three people.
Many Republicans had harshly criticized President Trump's marquee bill extending tax cuts and slashing social safety net programs -- almost right up until the moment they voted for it.
The ruling cited a Supreme Court decision in May that allowed President Trump to sideline Democratic appointees from several other nonpartisan agencies.
Top party officials see the president's sweeping domestic policy bill as cruel and fiscally ruinous -- and they're betting the American public will, too.