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The ruling came hours before the midnight deadline for workers to apply for the deferred resignation program, which has been commonly described as a buyout.

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

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.

A lawsuit says the Trump administration's offer of a buyout to federal employees is unlawful, noting that Congress has not appropriated money for it.

The Trump administration gave most of the country’s federal employees just nine full days to decide if they want to resign with pay through the end of September.

The deadline is looming for federal workers offered deferred resignations in an effort by the administration of President Donald Trump to cut the size of the federal government. The offer, extended with a Thursday,