Yeah, Reagan functionally broke the system and every president and party since then has made tiny tweaks at best, this type of understaffing was common under Biden and Obama as well. Its just hit its breaking point.

Pretending this is a Trump only issue is covering for a whole lot of people who share the blame in addition to Trump.

I would say you are more than likely fine, malicious code does occasionally sneak into Debian distributed apps but you’ll likely never encounter something that is outright fraudulent or a scam.