What government agency has ever said they need less time or less money? So giving them less than they say they need is the normal state of affairs for governmen

What government agency has ever said they need less time or less money? So giving them less than they say they need is the normal state of affairs for government agencies. The only difference is that now the aggrieved bureaucrats have a receptive audience in credulous journalists who are always ready to write a story about how the current administration is "ending democracy" if they don't do exactly what the bureaucrats want. So you would expect right wing media doing stories on how the military, the VA or the border patrol is underfunded or has had excessive "political interference" during Democrat administrations, and left wing media (which is 95% of the "mainstream" media on the US) would be expected to say the same about different parts of the government with a republican administration. Just normal politics at work - doesn't mean the stories aren't important, but let's keep things in context.