Thomas Sowell wrote a column on this very thing just recently. He said, approximately and in reductio ad absurdum, assume there is a government agency in charge of 2 things: 1) Manufacturing lifesaving children's medicine and 2) Erecting statues of Benedict Arnold. Which service would be the first to get cut?
The answer, of course, is 1) The Children's Medicine.
Because, eliminating the manufacture of critical children's medicine is sure to cause an enormous public outcry, and is certain to be added back (immediately) in a later budget. Eliminating the Benedict Arnold statues would cause people to wonder why we were erecting statues of a man like that to begin with.
Mr Sowell, as usual, hit it out of the park. Getting rid of volunteer-led WH tours will cause a public outcry. Getting rid of the "Calligrapher's office" (and likely a million+ per year in expenses to run it) causes people ask "Tell me again why we need this?".
That’s exactly where I got the example,
but I changed the statue to Cat in the Hat as an illustration for my kids.