Nearly 80,000 federal workers have taken Donald Trump's buyout offer, and while that number represents a small percentage of the more than 3 million workers on the federal payroll, the buyout could impact New Jersey's federal workforce.

The buyout is one of many approaches Trump is taking to slash a civilian workforce of 2.3 million that he has blasted as ineffective and biased against him.

A federal judge in Boston Wednesday is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with its federal worker buyout program for the moment.