He’s a placeholder for them to use to continue the political theater they have been allowed to use to waste money and time, in their continuing effort to prove the government doesn’t work.
Sabotage. That’s the word and I’m pretty sure if there was any sanity this would be seen as the continuing sedition that it is by those that participated in an attempted overthrow of the government but still somehow keep their jobs.
Why would they change tactics now?
That’s because at a certain point things like this should just become services.
But that’s wildly against capitalists mindset so…