A judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s buyout offer to federal civilian employees from taking effect Thursday, hours before the deadline the administration set for more than 2 million employees to decide whether to take resignation packages with pay through September.

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Political Strategist Mychal Wilson joins FOX 5's LiveZone to discuss USAID jobs being cuts by 97%, and a judge blocks Trump federal worker 'buyout'.

Before the deadline, federal workers must decide whether to accept or reject Trump’s buyout offer. What happens to those who reject the offer and decide not to resign?

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the deadline for federal employees to accept President Trump's proposed "buyout" offer until at least Monday. This offer wasn't approved by Congress and unions are warning workers not to take the deal.

A U.S. judge on Friday said he will enter a "very limited" order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from taking some steps to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, adding that 2,200 employees from the agency would not immediately be placed on administrative leave.

Wes Battle has been glued to the phone at his financial-planning office in Maryland for days, endlessly fielding calls from clients, most of whom work for the federal government. They all want to know the same thing in a hurry: Is the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s “fork in the road” offer a good deal financially?

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.