Some questions come to mind :
1. Do we have a better energy situation in this country since we have had a Dept of Energy?
2. Is the state of public education markedly improved since Jimmy Carter created the Dept of Education???
I’m sure other questions come to mind, as to whether federal intervention in various areas has improved the situation in those areas.
I think Nixon created all or most of the alphabet agencies.
Biden-Obama 2016
I think that the great Milton Friedman said it well: “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years, there’d be a shortage of sand”.