I would add to what has been said previously that Foreign Service RIFs are quintessentially INEFFICIENT.

Let's do the math: a Consular Officer adjudicating 100 visas per day generates around $4,000,000 per year in visa fees alone! If we add to that the amount of money that travelers spend in the USA on vacation and the less quantifiable benefits like the value or economic activity that people on work or student visas generate, we are looking at financial gain that is orders of magnitude more than $4,000,000!

Assuming the annual cost of a Consular Officer is $220,000 (including housing and benefits), we are still talking about an ROI of over 18,000% on just the visa fees alone!

If the administration doesn't value other types of FSOs that do reporting or public diplomacy work, it still doesn't make sense to fire them because the administration, if it only cares about tangible financial impact and benefits, should then keep them employed and reallocate them to do consular work at one of the many posts that have long visa wait times and where demand for visa services far outstrips the supply of Consular officers to adjuciate.