To be sure, the relevant statutory regulation[1] didn't always read the way how it does.
[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...
[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...
It's unnerving, and unbecoming of an egalitarian society.