Over the last several decades you could count on your fingers and maybe a few toes the number of government programs that have been cancelled, no matter how obsolete, inefficient, wasteful, or (in some rare cases) mission accomplished.

Even Ronald Reagan, who called for the cancellation of scores of programs, couldn’t get Congress to end the life support system. After watching Congress fund even the most inefficient agencies, he famously groused that “the closest thing to immortality on this earth is a government program.”

But to quote the back-in-vogue poet of the people, Bob Dylan, the times they are a-changing in Washington.

Last week the seemingly impossible happened. Congress terminated at least a half-dozen major programs, many that fiscal hawks have been trying to terminate for nearly half a century.

The Trump rescission bill made it through the House and Senate and mothballs federal funding for National Public Radio, Public TV and the U.S. Agency for........

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