Why is this allowed to continue?
Democrats!!!
Your Congress at work. If the didn't want it, it wouldn't exist. Take something like Endowment for the Arts or NPR both things we have hated since inception, Funding for PPP, yet they exist because Congress wants them to exist. The Ninth Circuit exist because Congress wants them to exist. In fact everything exists because Congress wants it to.
Congress could get tough if they wanted to, they don't else they would because the House controls the money if the Senate won't go along, start defunding some of their creations.
Never happen of course before CW II.