The White House said that 40,000 federal workers took its offer for a deferred resignation before a judge temporarily blocked its implementation. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr.

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

Eligible federal workers must decide by 11:59 pm ET on Thursday whether to take the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer, which will allow them to leave their jobs but be paid through the end of September.