I assume you mean the Administrative State. As a high level alum, I definitely have to agree.  If we (collectively) didn't like a executive or legislative mandate, we simply didn't implement and/or enforce it.  Self policing organization so you can guess about the people assigned to the enforcement sections of each agency. Hiring authorities aren't in a huge rush to put in people who will constrain the power of their bosses.

Any other alums out there will  know about the dotted line game played with agency org charts. There was always a dotted line from the policy enforcement official around their day to day COC to the Agency Head. The fallacy being pushed here was that the agency head (e.g. The Director of the FBI) always had impeccable judgment and fealty to the nations rules and regulations and was not swayed by personal relationships within the agency. Yeah right. Guess how well that works out in actual practice?