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They have been treating the federal government as if it were "private industry" - where anything goes - literally ignoring and violating all manner of laws that govern the employment conditions of federal employees (including the various Civil Service Acts).

The early "firings" without a 60-day notice and other crap is an example that has now been forgotten in the "flood the zone" news cycle. But since I was posting many of the LBN OPs on it (although not always in complete detail but enough to do a search to get the info pulled up), I remember what were breathtaking illegalities underway that some courts were halting (and have kept halted - in some cases, leaving employees in limbo).

Before I retired, I recall various "recent" changes to "Retirement" options that were made - including what was dubbed a "phased retirement", which effectively helped to reduce FTEs at an agency (since these employees are essentially "part time" ) but kept the knowledge base intact as those who selected this option, transitioned out.

But early on, most of these codified processes have been ignored, misunderstood, or misused, and 6 months later, are slowly being realigned into something that would attempt to be "legal"... but it's not really there yet.

Most of the earliest idiotic "Fork in the Road" emails had to be revised over and over and over because they were so blatantly illegal and confusing. And the stupid media didn't help and were instead amplifying the misinformation due to pure laziness and an apparent lack of any "government-knowledgeable" staff among their employees.

(ETA - I was a Supervisor for a bunch of years and know all about "Administrative Leave" because I have had employees put in that status. There are a series of escalation steps to go through before you get to that point though)