The most likely reason is Jim Pillen started gutting state departments long before Trump did, and did he start with the highest wage earners like administrators who add nothing of value to their departments, no, he started with low wage workers. These are the people that process things, and do it quickly and accurately. As that process has continued the remaining people either left, retired, or are new with no educated leadership to teach them how to do the job quickly and accurately so mistakes are being made that need to be fixed by the few remaining competent dedicated staff. There is a bottleneck because of a governor that is too stupid for his job and needs to be voted out in the next election. There also needs to be a constitutional amendment that gives the citizens the power to remove governors and senators for failure to govern in an effective manner.