

In addition to all of that, one of the most infuriating things to find when googling something for yourself is finding the schmucks online that say it too. The only response to the question you were asking, that you found by googling is “just Google it.”
What they’re doing is cutting staff so hard that the departments become unable to do their jobs exactly so that you can have this argument. They’ll deny getting rid of anything, but they’ll handicap departments so much they effectively become disabled.
The most recent example being social security. They cut the staff so much that there are major concerns about if they can even continue to function over the next 30-90 days. EPA is having similar concerns. Now the IRS too (not that we love taxes or anything). Yes, ThE pRoGrAm StIlL eXiStS, but if it can’t function is it really still serving any purpose?