A 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.

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Before the deadline, federal workers must decide whether to accept or reject Trump’s buyout offer. What happens to those who reject the offer and decide not to resign?

Wes Battle has been glued to the phone at his financial-planning office in Maryland for days, endlessly fielding calls from clients, most of whom work for the federal government. They all want to know the same thing in a hurry: Is the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s “fork in the road” offer a good deal financially?

More than 40,000 federal workers have accepted President Trump's buyout offer, which is part of his plan to reduce and restructure the federal workforce.

The buyouts were being pushed by both President Trump and Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk as a way to drastically reduce the number of employees on the federal payroll.

The Trump administration warned federal employees that they could be furloughed if they don't accept a buyout offer.

President Donald Trump is facing legal hurdles in his efforts to shrink the federal government. The latest coming from a federal judge who is pausing the implementation of the White House’s buyout offer to all federal workers until Monday after employee unions filed suit arguing it violates federal law.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily paused President Donald Trump’s plan to offer buyouts to millions of federal workers, an initiative aimed at trimming the federal workforce but