A judge will weigh President Donald Trump’s buyout offer to federal civilian employees in a hearing Monday, after extending last week’s deadline for more than 2 million employees to decide whether to take resignation packages with pay through September—part of Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s bid to shrink the federal workforce.

The deadline for federal workers to accept OPM's buyout offer was on Feb. 6, but terms of resignation are different for IRS workers during tax season.

The Trump administration and federal employee unions are in a head-to-head lobbying battle as workers face a Feb. 6 deadline to decide whether they want to accept a government buyout. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has led the charge in offering eight months of pay and benefits to workers should they wish to leave the