Obviously, a big part of the fascist playbook is to just heap outrage upon outrage to exhaust observers and throw chaff so they don't notice the important stuff they are getting up to. I guess they also don't really care if these departments grind to a halt and become useless, so long as they have a nice list of powerless people to blame.

Food quality sucks? Obviously illegal immigrants
Resurgences of childhood diseases? Again, illegals
Drugs unavailable or unsafe? Trans people!