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

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

A federal judge 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.

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.

Employees who take the offer are promised pay and benefits through Sept. 30 without having to work. But there's skepticism.

In the wake of the worst American air disaster in two decades, the understaffed and cash-strapped National Transportation Safety Board was scrambling to keep investigators from leaving after federal employees received an offer by the Trump administration to resign and be paid through September.

Undergirding a fight formed in group texts and between cubicles is a conviction that nonpartisan civil servants provide a necessary check on Trump’s power.