If Barr were worth a good BM, 50% of the 120,000 employees would be purged. Obama fatten up the ranks of the government employees big time as POTUS. You could scale back all agencies by 50%, and this government would not skip a beat. All vacated positions should be red shirted, with no exception.
What I have witnessed is an extreme case of diminishing returns with the number of people working in the different agencies, etc, including and particularly the CDC. The project work that fits in the category of do this, but if we do not do this, no one will care constitutes about 50% of what they are doing. In fact, I laughed heartily when several senators today thanked the medical folks for all the hard work they have done in conjunction with this virus, and the fact is the CDC has done little, little to nothing. Only in the past month have they come alive to work on this virus. Almost all of them sat at home doing very little prior to a month ago. They quit doing contact tracing which made no sense to me early on. I understand stopping in breakout cities like New York, but there were areas of the country where there were only a handful of infected folks, and contact tracing would have been extremely helpful.
Also, the CDC sat quiet when idiots like Gov Cuomo made the decision to put folks infected with the virus in nursing homes, which when I first heard it, I thought totally asinine. Where was the CDC guidance then? Nonexistent, that's where.
To say I am not the least bit impressed by Dr Fauci or Dr Redfield would be an understatement. Both these characters are deficient in their roles.