That’s a nice general principle but you didn’t provide evidence of specific harm. I think arguing past each other from first principles is exactly why the US is in this mess in the first place.

The fact is that all these government agencies are preventing specific harms. Throwing them out because of some vague “big government is bad because it might turn into a tyrrany later” isn’t an argument that the harms being prevented don’t exist. It’s a non-sequitor, like saying the sky is blue when someone complains about airplane noise.