“Why or how is it that all of these people are related to each other?!”
The federal government is now a family business. There are families that have worked for the Federal bureauracracy for many generations because DC is the biggest employer in the region and has been there for 220 years. If the federal government is to be reformed then federal agencies must to be dispersed across the country and be moved periodically, maybe as often as every 20 years.
Since 1861.