Your perception is spot on. It is seen as a huge scandal, just not by the party it benefits, which controls about 5/6 of national government (partially thanks to said policies), so nothing changes.

EDIT: As others have noted, of course, perception depends on media bubbles, and reality may differ by place and time. Read my statement to be the perception of liberal mid-30s white male from the northeast coast, looking at the past ~15 years or so.