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.

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

A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration from implementing its deferred resignation program, just hours before the 11:59 p.m. deadline for workers to decide whether to accept the offer.

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.

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.

Thursday was supposed to be decision day. But then a federal judge suspended Trump's buyouts for workers until at least Monday.

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.