Also, to be clear, those incentives aren't coming from within the bureaucracy. For example, let's say that a program tries to do something and it totally doesn'

Also, to be clear, those incentives aren't coming from within the bureaucracy. For example, let's say that a program tries to do something and it totally doesn't work. A news story about this will be roughly the same if $10,000 is spent as if $100,000 is spent as if $1,000,000 is spent. That creates an incentive never to label anything a failure and just keep pumping good money after bad - that's how to avoid the negative article.