that's because agencies used to implement federal policy (e.g. the FDA) are attributed to the federal government budget, whereas the EU member state equivalent

that's because agencies used to implement federal policy (e.g. the FDA) are attributed to the federal government budget, whereas the EU member state equivalents that implement EU policy get attributed to national budgets the EU doesn't fund enforcement of the GDPR, the national information commissioners do not having to pay to implement its policies makes the EU look many, many times more efficient than it actually is