NASA on Friday said it received a one-week deadline extension to submit its plans to the top U.S. personnel agency for mass layoffs, given the number of high-priority space missions the agency is grappling with this month.

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.

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.

The staff reductions are the latest effort by the Trump administration to decrease the federal government’s role in education.

President Donald Trump announced recently that roughly half of the Education Department's staff was being cut, amid his contentious plans to axe the department altogether.

A group of attorneys generals from mainly Democratic-led states said the cuts would decimate the agency.