A Trump administration spokesperson said more than 40,000 federal employees had taken the buyout and the number is "growing."

The Trump administration’s lawyers had argued that extending the deadline on the very last day would “markedly disrupt the expectations of the federal workforce, inject tremendous uncertainty into a program that scores of federal employees have already availed themselves of,

Hours before the deadline for the Trump administration's federal employee buyout offer, a judge will consider a request to block the buyout from moving forward.