Liz Goggin, a social worker with the Veterans Health Administration, took the offer to resign in exchange for pay and benefits through September. Then she learned her position was exempt.

Some 75,000 federal employees accepted the Trump administration’s “Fork in the Road” deferred resignation offer, a White House official confirmed to the Washington Examiner. The figure represents less than 4% of the more than 2 million federal workers currently employed and is less than the 5% to 10% estimate officials were hoping to hit through

With a judge’s assent, the Trump administration moved to take next steps in the program and close it to new entrants.

The offer’s deadline closed Wednesday after a federal judge ruled to end a temporary pause to the program ordered last week.

U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. in Boston ruled that the labor unions lacked legal standing to challenge the program.

The judge that a group of labor unions did not have legal standing to challenge the program, commonly described as a buyout.

A federal judge who previously paused the deferred resignation deadline for federal workers allowed it to proceed on Wednesday.