If the government had its own fully independent network and operating system that was more limited in what it could do and access than all the stuff everyone else uses, this might not be the same level of issue, either.
1400 is too many either way. A 25,000 person company can easily service itself with under 100 people, and that’s probably still way too high. IRS has 100,000, supposedly, and the job scales fairly well.
If the government had its own fully independent network and operating system that was more limited in what it could do and access than all the stuff everyone else uses, this might not be the same level of issue, either.
1400 is too many either way. A 25,000 person company can easily service itself with under 100 people, and that’s probably still way too high. IRS has 100,000, supposedly, and the job scales fairly well.