They're 50 employees with an annual budget of $14.4 million. The cost/benefit ratio here is very good.
What's this administration trying do, return the US to the Third World or the Dark Ages? Madness.
It's a silver lining in disguise, really. Such countries tend to collapse relatively quickly because it turns out facts are important for running a country - look at the USSR's fake food supply. Relatively quickly could still be a decade, though.
It's an open question if they'll retain that with Xi now President for life.
US and EU seem to have forgotten that, at least when you look at the decisions of their leadership.
The reason democracy historically wins out in the long run is not because it always picks better leaders, but because it picks fewer really bad ones. And checks/balances those it does.
For all his faults as a leader, Xi has also come down hard on actual corruption and malfeasance.
Imagine Trump in charge of China.