The Trump administration is moving the headquarters of the Forest Service from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City. The decision is the right one and, in a small way, restores political and economic power to citizens. Other federal entities should follow suit.

Washington has become a behemoth it was never meant to be. What was once a small village on the Potomac has become a swamp of special interests and an ever-expanding government, which too often ensnares and hobbles the nation’s people rather than governing in their interests. 

Beginning nearly a century ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal created a litany of government agencies with massive bureaucracies. This dramatically expanded the reach and role of the federal government in a way that our founding fathers would neither have recognized nor approved.

As bureaucracies grew, the federal government became ever more removed from citizens. This has distorted our country, wrenching it toward a leftist and statist dispensation, changing what it is and the way it is governed for the worse.

The federal capital has been called “recession-proof” because its many agencies and army of employees keep the city and........

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