SUNDAY COLUMN: Nobody Kept Score. Now Nobody Knows How to Put It Back Together.

The federal government was dismantled in plain sight. No one documented it. Now there's no map to put it back together.

WASHINGTON — There is no manual.

That’s the part nobody wants to say out loud. Somewhere between the first wave of Schedule F firings and the gutting of USAID, somewhere between the dismantling of the Department of Education and the methodical hollowing of the career civil service, the damage stopped being a scandal and became a condition. And nobody — not the press corps, not the think tanks, not the Democratic opposition, not the inspectors general who were fired before they could finish their reports — nobody was keeping a comprehensive, systematic record of exactly what was broken, what was shredded, and what was simply abandoned.

Which means the first post-MAGA White House will walk into a building and not know what’s missing.