This isn’t revolutionary; it simply means that federal employees would be able to seek damages in court that are similar to what private-sector employees could

This isn’t revolutionary; it simply means that federal employees would be able to seek damages in court that are similar to what private-sector employees could seek. It’s still no walk in the park: you have to prove liability first, meaning you have to prove your whistleblower activity was the motive for your firing. (The government will cook up an alternate explanation, of course.) You have to prove your damages to a reasonable certainty. But if you do jump through those hoops, then you won’t hit a special wall previously erected to block an aspect of federal employees’ claims.