Just ANOTHER example of the DC swamp being an entity unto itself and separate from the United States.
Anyone who has ever worked in DC knows its an insular and self-serving place. Basically like an elite club.
The bigger government gets the more “opportunities” there are for graft and corruption, so naturally the Denizens of DC want to relentlessly expand it. In the process, its citizens get smaller and smaller each time government grows ever larger.