Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, today's deadline for federal workers to resign with pay is temporarily delayed. The latest of President Trump's plans to be blocked by a court.

How the federal funding freeze is limiting nonprofit's ability to operate, including community

health care and Head Start programs.

And a leading democracy advocate examines the dramatic changes the Trump administration is making

to the U.S. government.

Trump is simply doing things that are flatly on their face illegal and seeing what happens.

Welcome to the News Hour. It has been perhaps the most significant day of court action for the second Trump administration so far.

Multiple judges have temporarily blocked efforts by President Trump to dramatically gut the federal government, and more lawsuits are yet to come.

Laura Barone Lopez has this report.

A federal judge in Washington paused a takeover

by billionaire Elon Musk and his team,

blocking their access for now from a sensitive

Treasury Department payment system.

That system holds personal information on millions of Americans,

from social security numbers to bank

account details. A group of unions argued the agency was illegally sharing information with

Musk's team, known as the Department of Government Efficiency. Also today, an effort to purge

the federal government of workers has been paused until Monday by a federal judge in Massachusetts.

In an unprecedented move, Musk's team directly emailed 2 million civilian federal workers,

urging them to take a deferred resignation offer by midnight tonight, promising pay through September.

But unions representing workers who sued warned of a dangerous

one-two punch, a loss of expertise, and the rise of partisanship over truth. White House

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