How Many Federal Workers Are Taking Buyouts? More than 40,000 workers have reportedly taken the offer and the number is growing, an unnamed source familiar with the matter told NB

Here’s what we know about the deferred resignation program offered to federal employees by the Trump administration.

The Trump administration ramped up pressure on U.S. government workers on Thursday to accept a buyout offer ahead of a midnight deadline as labor unions urged members to remain in their jobs and sought to block the proposal in court.

Thursday was supposed to be decision day. But then a federal judge suspended Trump's buyouts for workers until at least Monday.

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s buyout offer to federal civilian employees from taking effect Thursday, hours before the deadline the administration set for more than 2 million employees to decide whether to take resignation packages with pay through September.

A federal judge on Thursday pushed back to Monday a deadline for U.S. government employees to opt into the Trump administration's "deferred resignation" program offering workers nearly eight months of pay and benefits to leave their jobs.

Unions representing many of the nation’s 2.3 million federal workers charge that the administration’s “unprecedented offer” violates the law.

A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s plan to push out federal workers by offering them financial incentives.

Follow the latest coverage as President Donald Trump participates in the National Prayer Breakfast. Live updates as the Senate weighs Cabinet nominees and federal workers consider buyouts.