President Trump rightly purged the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, ending the pretense that a federal panel should meddle in elections the Constitution assigns to the states. With midterms looming, the move dismantles an agency that too often functioned as a backdoor for national standards, paperwork mandates, and resistance to basic safeguards like voter ID. Democrats’ outrage reveals their preference for insulated bureaucracies over elected control. The Founders designed federalism to keep election administration close to the people, not centralized in Washington through independent commissions exercising power nowhere granted by the text. Limited government requires that executive agencies answer to the President who appoints them, not operate as permanent fixtures advancing their own agendas. Original constitutional design leaves no room for such entities to dilute state responsibility or shield processes from accountability. Trump’s action reasserts that elections belong to citizens and their representatives, not to entrenched officials.