Why is that relevant. I miss your point.
You all are lauding and applauding this new Cabinet post and all that goes along with it, comments posted read as though this is a temporary fix, needed because of this emergency situation, gee, when it's all over and we've won, it won't exist any more.
Nothing lives longer than a government program, this position is PERMANENT. Any government program receives more and more tax dollars every budget cycle. There is no way in he** this cannot be called an expansion of government ... it simply needs the preposition "now" added to the phrase.
And you can bet your life that the next Dem who becomes president and appoints one of his buddies to the post is going to make his *turf* as big as he possibly can. That's my point.