Since the first administration of Franklin Roosevelt, the U.S. government has expanded markedly. As one agency after another has been added, few have been disbanded. 

Meanwhile, the bureaucrats who run such agencies become skilled at justifying their existence, influencing key members of Congress, and seeking more money. 

Draining the Treasury 

The Left bemoans President Trump's plans to scale back the Department of Education and eventually eliminate it, and yet citizens on both the Left and Right are largely unaware of 1,503 government agencies, offices, departments, or programs that accomplish little or nothing, other than to drain funds from the Treasury. 

Independent of the revelations exposed by DOGE thus far, many of these entities are unfettered by scrutiny that would otherwise end them. Most of these entities have exceeded their expiration dates and should be gone by now. 

Of the 1,503 living-dead agencies, almost 50% were slated to expire more than ten years ago. Nearly one-third of them continue to receive funding, collectively to the tune of more than $500 billion. As for the other two-thirds, it is........

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