50 employees with a budget of $14.4 million doesn’t even qualify as a rounding error in the federal budget. Don’t pretend this has anything remotely to do with “government waste”.

A low number is a good reason not to spend resources auditing it. But why would it be a good reason to keep something around you found you don’t need?

I don't think that anyone has demonstrated that we don't need it.

No. But rather than telling us the merits they appear to be telling us it’s so small it’s not worth doing so.

Then they weren't necessary in the first place. 50 federal employees can hardly perform the work of 5 of the private sector. Don't pretend that government employees are the least efficient, least qualified, and least motivated to change anything in the world.