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

OPM is required to notify all employees who received an initial "deferred resignation" offer by Thursday evening that the deadline for accepting the legally dubious offer has been pushed until Monday.

Federal employees have through Thursday to decide whether to take what the Trump administration calls its “buyout” or “deferred resignation” offer.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Office of Personnel Management's deadline for federal employees to accept the Trump administration's "deferred resignation" offer. U.S. District George O'Toole prevented the agency from implementing the program's deadline during a brief hearing held hours before federal workers were required to notify OPM of whether they would accept or reject the offer to step away from their positions.

Federal employees had been told they'd have until today to decide whether to opt in to the program, which is now under a court-ordered pause.

Hundreds of thousands of federal employees must decide by February 6, 2025, whether to accept the " Fork in the Road" deferred resignation offer.

The judicial branch is reviewing lawsuits on several moves by the Trump administration and judges around the country are weighing in on the legality of the "deferred resignation" plan for federal employees and the president's executive order on birthright citizenship.

Staff within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are now permitted to take the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer, reversing an exemption notice provided late last week saying CISA and other Department of Homeland Security bureaus would not qualify because of national security reasons.

A judge has temporarily blocked the deadline for federal employees to accept the "deferred resignation" program. This comes as a second judge rules on President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.