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This American Life. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. More than two

million federal workers now have a few more days to decide whether to take the Trump administration

up on its offer to stay on the job or leave now with nearly eight months of pay.

Today, a federal judge in Boston pushed back tonight's midnight deadline to at least Monday.

Meanwhile, groups are suing over the administration's deferred resignation program.

Max Steer, head of the nonprofit partnership for public service, says Trump's actions targeting

government workers will have far-reaching consequences for the American public.

You've got air traffic controllers and TSA employees.

You go to the supermarket and buy your hamburger meat and expect to be able to serve your kids

hamburgers without them getting sick.

You get to drink the water without worrying about,

you know, what's in it. You know, we've got enemies in Russia and China. They have cyber attacks,

and all those things are protected against by federal employees. Meckstar speaking to NPR's here

and now. A federal judge is ordering the government to limit access to the U.S. Treasury

Department's

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