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I think exactly this has been the deliberate strategy of a part of the US' political class for a long time - "starve the beast" and all. This seems like the final culmination of those plans.
Tell the people the government is inefficient and cannot work as intended. Defund said government so it doesn't work as intended. Privatize the work and profit. A playbook as old as time. Except they are doing it bigger and more brazenly than ever.