Stop. They don't care. They want you to exhaust yourself over this and everything they are doing. They want to instill Russian style malaise by flooding crisis and making you defend all this stupid shit. They don't care the outcome. If you win you lose because you are exhausted and they just do the next thing. They have stated their goals prior to coming into power and none of it was efficiency. Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and steelmanning a position they don't have. They want to destroy the American administrative state.

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...