Eligible federal workers must decide by 11:59 p.m. ET on Thursday whether to take the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer, which will generally allow them to leave their jobs but be paid through the end of September.

A Treasury union president representing 150,000 federal workers urges them not to accept the Trump administration's buyouts through a “deferred resignation program” in a push to quickly reduce the government workforce.

President Donald Trump‘s voluntary resignation offer to federal workers leaves them with few legal options if they decide to take the deal and later try to sue.