This is going to happen to more agencies in the US government, and at least one of them is going to turn out to be load-bearing and cause the entire federal government to actually literally, and not in an exaggerated superlative way, cease to function.
And I don’t mean in the way you could say “but it already has”. I mean: one morning we’re going to wake up and the Internet will be offline, the electrical grid will be browning out, and financial systems will be unable to process payments across the entire country, because the control systems have nobody at the helm and no one will have the credential access to perform maintenance upkeep.
This is going to happen to more agencies in the US government, and at least one of them is going to turn out to be load-bearing and cause the entire federal government to actually literally, and not in an exaggerated superlative way, cease to function.
And I don’t mean in the way you could say “but it already has”. I mean: one morning we’re going to wake up and the Internet will be offline, the electrical grid will be browning out, and financial systems will be unable to process payments across the entire country, because the control systems have nobody at the helm and no one will have the credential access to perform maintenance upkeep.