While the pundit class is transfixed this time of year by the midterm elections, less attention has been paid to what’s actually going on in the halls of power and the reforms needed to bring balance and accountability back for the taxpayers that elected President Trump. With last month’s appointment of a new commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service, for example, conservatives have the opportunity to reform one of the most powerful government agencies. The sprawling bureaucracy of the executive branch has allowed the opaque practices of the so-called swamp to thrive; recent memory provides plenty of examples of corruption and abuse that persist.

When it was first discovered that the IRS was manipulating the tax status of conservative groups based on their political affiliation in 2013, the IRS acting commissioner and head of the division responsible eventually resigned, but the tenure of subsequent IRS Commissioner John Koskinen was characterized by the scandal. Years of oversight hearings resulted in little clarity from Koskinen regarding the full extent of the agency’s missteps.