> The federal government has a very good design system.
Having no knowledge of how the federal government works, but having worked for fairly large organizations, I would still guess that the design system exists and is used in many places but a significant fraction may not even know it exists much less that they are supposed to use it.
Seconded. Plus many Fed'Gov orgs have explicitly different systems, requirements, and silos. The DOD or NSA would put out something flashy, but this is State...
Every interaction I’ve had with someone from USDS has been top-notch. I obviously can’t speak to the politics that may happen amongst the higher ups behind the scenes but the people they’re recruiting are excellent.
It's almost like they ran it through jpegify.me on purpose as a joke, but really it's just another sign of the US's government technical incompetence.