More than 65,000 federal employees have taken the Trump administration‘s “Fork in the Road” deferred resignation offer, and that number continues to grow. A White House official confirmed the figure to the Washington Examiner as the White House hopes to reach its target of having between 5% and 10% of the federal workforce accept the

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

A federal judge paused Thursday’s deadline for federal employees to accept the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer while more proceedings on the program’s legality play out.

If the Trump administration reaches its goal of cutting 5% to 10% of staff, more than 100,000 people will leave the federal workforce, making it by far the largest layoff in U.S. history. The current record-holder is IBM, which cut 60,000 jobs in 1993.

Rattled civil servants struggled with whether to leave their posts in advance of a Thursday deadline as Elon Musk continued his push through agencies.

A Boston federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s resignation offer to federal civilian employees on Thursday.

The Trump administration issued an email blast on Jan. 28 giving most of the country’s 2.3 million eligible employees federal workers the option to resign with pay through Sept. 30. The deadline to decide on whether to accept the offer is Thursday.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's plan to push out federal workers by offering them financial incentives, the latest tumult for government employees already wrestling with upheaval from the new administration.