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is that most were not done with any clear plan or background knowledge of the agency and were not done "for cause" as required by the Civil Service Act, but were sweeping (whether they were being accommodated or not). And that is why the administration was sued, resulting in many of the firings put on hold by the courts, while others have gone forward or are going forward due to appellate rulings, while the merits of their cases are being argued at the lower courts.

One big group that the bogus firings impacted, were the "probationary employees" (those who were supposedly still "Career Conditional" ). But in the zeal to hit what they saw labeled in a data file as "on probation" with them thinking the employee was "Career Conditional", they ended up sweeping in a big pile of Career tenured experienced employees who simply switched jobs and/or were promoted to management positions, and were not "brand new", but were simply in a probationary period in their new positions. That has meant a piece-meal rescinding of "firings" that is still going on.

I expect for some agencies with a downsizing "quota" by some zealot appointee, you might have shedding of employees who were originally being accommodated legally, but that was ignored, and would force them to appeal or sue per the ADA. But because the workforce is so large, those stories rarely hit any news media.

So this has been a whole mess that will take time to resolve.