Private companies are required to do a good job and balance spending to stay alive. Goverment agencies can do the most horrible job for enormous amounts of money and just keep going.
First of all that isn't evidence of anything and explains how we got in this pickle to begin with... people making shit up.
Secondly, private companies don't have to do a good job. They have to turn a profit, which could be exploitative and not necessarily legal.
Third, government agencies have budgets and audits like many public companies but not private companies. If a government agency exceeds its budget it is essential bankrupt.
Finally, if a government agency fails an audit people can be fined, fired, or even prosecuted. Government agencies are always audited, unlike many commercial companies that are only audited according to regulation and/or cause of investigation. Many of the people recently fired by DOGE are auditors that were preventing the very kind of behavior you suggest of government.
