It’s called SES or Senior Executive Service bonuses. The entire government does this and no surprise that the partisan 7th floor of the FBI would sprinkle these to their minions, but the SES’s (highest paid employees) would get the bonuses regardless of what “reason” they cite.
As much as I detest the politicization of the DOJ, I think Gaetz is spinning this to make a specific attack (valid one at least) but taxpayers should understand that the federal bonus system has become an annual part of the compensation package for senior government executives. It is not really incentive based no matter what the brochure says.
If the SES in the FIB had refused to go after Trump or conservatives and had voiced that it was wrong....do you think that they would have gotten the bonuses?