President Donald Trump has moved to dramatically shrink the size of the federal workforce and mass terminations have already begun at several U.S. government agencies. But a tangled web of laws and regulations around hiring and firing government employees could mire Trump's efforts in lawsuits and delays.

About 75,000 federal employees have accepted the White House's "deferred resignation" offer to resign but receive pay through September, according to a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management.

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

Approximately 77,000 federal employees have accepted a deferred resignation offer spearheaded by the Trump administration as it looks to reduce the federal workforce, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.