Around 75,000 workers have reportedly taken the offer so far. That represents about 3% of those who were offered the deal—a large job cut by any measure, but short of the White House’s reported goal of slashing between 5% and 10% of the federal workforce through buyouts.

Tens of thousands of U.S. civil servants were cleared to take a buyout from Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday after a federal judge ruled the unprecedented downsizing effort could proceed. About 75,