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What happened in that chamber was more than a promotion for Marco Rubio; it was a recalibration of how invisible power moves through Washington. The agency he now commands doesn’t write laws or argue cases on cable news. It does something far more potent: it decides which rules ever see daylight, and which die quietly in a stack of drafts no voter will ever read. That chokepoint, once obscure, is now the battlefield where “efficiency” faces off against transparency.
In the coming months, the country will learn whether this was a safeguard or a slow-motion subversion. If Rubio opens the doors, publishes the paper trail, and subjects his own office to scrutiny, he could prove that reform and sunlight can coexist. But if key decisions vanish into closed-door reviews and unexplained delays, Americans may realize too late that the most dangerous power is the kind exercised where no one is looking.
What happened in that chamber was more than a promotion for Marco Rubio; it was a recalibration of how invisible power moves through Washington. The agency he now commands doesn’t write laws or argue cases on cable news. It does something far more potent: it decides which rules ever see daylight, and which die quietly in a stack of drafts no voter will ever read. That chokepoint, once obscure, is now the battlefield where “efficiency” faces off against transparency.
In the coming months, the country will learn whether this was a safeguard or a slow-motion subversion. If Rubio opens the doors, publishes the paper trail, and subjects his own office to scrutiny, he could prove that reform and sunlight can coexist. But if key decisions vanish into closed-door reviews and unexplained delays, Americans may realize too late that the most dangerous power is the kind exercised where no one is looking.
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