little script kiddies running around

Yeah, they're running around the Treasury Dept right now.

It’s been well known for decades that most government orgs have absolutely abysmal cyber security

Having worked with government agencies and a lot of large private organizations the thing that keeps them mostly secure is the amount of red tape involved with things. Patching a production system requires a teleconference with at least five different people and no one person knows everything.

The idiots without any security experience coming in to "streamline" things will just make the systems even more fragile and insecure.