[David Isaac]

If you will notice, that behavior does not seem to change much with the changing of administrations. The federal bureauacracy is a mostly independent monster that operates at a separate and nearly invisible level. The players at that level really have no loyalty other than to themselves and their particular fiefdom.

But still, any President should be held accountable for the actions of their "underlings"

[marktwain]

If there is one thing that people must understand about the bureaucracy, it is that the incentives to get ahead are reversed from the private market. Spending more money gets you ahead, spending less gets you demoted. Those who have no compunction about spending other peoples money (the taxpayers) often do the best.