As parts of the federal bureaucracy go, the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) would seem to be one of the more mundane and nonpolitical.
It doesn't make rules that restrict the free market or tell people how to live their lives. It's responsible for little more than managing the health insurance plans and the retirement benefits afforded to more than 152 million current and former federal workers and their families. That's about as rote and boring as a federal agency could be.
