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Not as ridiculous as your tortured interpretation of the story. Given the GOP's stated hostility to consumer regulation and the fact of significantly lower agency budgets during a previous period when the GOP held both White House and both Houses of Congress, observing that operating budgets may shrink at this agency is entirely rational. See, I was able to construct an argument without even mentioning the President-elect, based solely on past behavior of the soon-to-be majority party.