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.

The judge could opt to delay the buyout further or block it on a more permanent basis when he next considers the legal challenge by the unions at a hearing on Monday.

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 that

The administration set a deadline for Thursday at 11:59 p.m. Eastern for employees to decide on the offer. But a federal judge in Massachusetts paused the deadline until at least a hearing set for Monday at 2 p.

As the deadline looms for workers to accept the Trump administration's sweeping separation offer, the more than two million civilian employees by the federal government across the country are weighing whether to take it.

More than 2M federal employees must decide today whether to take a buyout offer from the Trump administration or keep their jobs. What you need to know.

A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's federal employee buyout program until Monday. NBC News' Ken Dilanian and Lisa Rubin have details on the judge's decision and its impacts.