It would be interesting to name someone to a top post and explain to the new Secretary: “Your job is to NOT spend your budget. Shrink everything. As much as you can. Open branch offices in North Dakota and transfer people. Whatever it takes.”
Yes, it would. But these long-entrenched agencies have deep state employees who’d work against that edict 24/7. I think it’s too late to change that ‘culture.’ It’s better to just denounce the need for the agency and demolish it.