Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project will feature its latest series titled “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs to be done. To read more from this series, click here.

The deep state does not always hide in the shadows. Sometimes it sits in broad daylight, draped in the language of “accountability” and “oversight,” quietly consolidating power that does not belong to it.