Because federal programs are actually very popular among the people who depend on them (e.g. get your government hands off my Medicare)? They do like holding bu

Because federal programs are actually very popular among the people who depend on them (e.g. get your government hands off my Medicare)? They do like holding budgets hostage though to get policy concessions, it’s not some secret motive, it happens literally every budget cycle. I did not say agencies are ineffective. I said GOP tries to dismantle federal agencies and insofar as they succeed, it yields dysfunction, which is of course the purpose of dismantling them (so it’s not bad faith). But this has almost nothing to do with saving money, as evidenced by the fact that GOP does not actually reduce budgets when they have the ability to. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/the-supreme-court-curbed-epas-power-to-regulate-carbon-emissions-from-power-plants-what-comes-next/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/the-supreme-court... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/us/politics/trump-asylum-seekers-executive-order.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/us/politics/trump-asylum-...