Whatever it "seems" like to you, it is a law passed by congress and signed by the president.

That doesn't necessarily mean the president or anyone in congress actually read it.

The latest spending bill was 2,232 pages of allocations, nuance, and a wide variety of different laws and rules that have nothing to do with spending. How many members of congress do you think read this bill and actually considered each item in it before voting on it?

Here [1] are some statistics on how much legislation congress churns through each year. The last congress, in their 2 years, enacted 329 different laws, passed 708 different resolutions, and also dealt with a whopping 10,334 other pieces of miscellaneous legislation. And congress also has relatively few legislative days where this is taken care of. The house averages around 140 legislative days a year, the senate around 160.

And congressmen spend the vast majority of their time not dealing with legislation, but instead fundraising for their next election, which involves "donors" "lobbying" them on the issues that matter to them. It's a great system, isn't it?

[1] - https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics