Don’t export Washington’s dysfunction to the states

Published January 11, 2017 12:01am ET



The idea of moving agency headquarters out of Washington D.C. and out into the states has
received a fair amount of buzz lately.

Whether touted by those who want to “drain the swamp” or by those eyeing more affordable living in the nation’s capital region, decentralizing the federal government is being teed up as a populist no-brainer for the incoming Trump administration.

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