Over the years, Republican presidential candidates have boasted of plans to eliminate wide swaths of the federal government. Sometimes, they have trouble coming up with concrete ideas. In 2011, Rick Perry famously claimed that he wanted to eliminate three federal agencies but faltered after naming the Commerce and Education Departments. During the most recent debate, Ted Cruz named the Commerce Department as one of the five federal departments he would eliminate—twice.
I am here to help: We should eliminate the Drug Enforcement Administration, an agency that has so much trouble holding employees accountable that, as USA Today reported earlier this year, it failed to fire “agents who investigators found attended ‘sex parties’ with prostitutes paid with drug cartel money while they were on assignment in Colombia.”