Surely you understand how the back-and-forth nature of this situation can be used to erode public trust, making it easier to discard the institution altogether, right? Trump appointed DeVos, who was a disaster for the department, leaving the next administration to waste time cleaning up the mess, which sets things back even further. He did the same with the NLRB, appointing business-friendly individuals who shifted support from workers to corporations in an effort to harm unionization. While the current administration has worked hard cleaned it up, the damage done has eroded public trust. And even if a new Secretary can reverse some policies, the constant shifts create delays and instability, making it harder to achieve long-term progress, which servers to hurt these institutions in the eyes of the public, thus making it easier to attack them or do away with them all together.