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.

President Trump while on the campaign trail proposed eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits. "Seniors should not pay taxes on Social Security," he commented on social media in July. Importantly, Trump is not the only politician to float that idea, nor is support limited to one political party.