A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to fire the head of a watchdog agency responsible for protecting whistleblowers. The unsigned order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit pauses a lower court order that reinstated Office of Special Counsel chief Hampton Dellinger.

An appeals court temporarily let the Trump administration oust Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger from his role as a federal watchdog Wednesday, freezing a lower court ruling, just hours after the Supreme Court separately forced the government to pay out $2 billion in foreign aid—one of the first major blows the Supreme Court has dealt to President Donald Trump.