One of the top domestic policy challenges facing the incoming Trump administration is the fundamental reform of federal public health agencies.

President Donald Trump and his new team can draw upon a treasure trove of congressional findings. For example, the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (a panel of the Energy and Commerce Committee) has recently released a remarkable report on the Biden-Harris administration’s $900 million public relations campaign to sell its scientifically defective COVID-19 policies.

No congressional panel, however, has done more to shine the light on these problems than the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, chaired by Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio. Subcommittee members have made commendable efforts to examine systemic failures over the past two years, and their investigations have also unveiled a troubling resistance on the part of federal officials to accept accountability for their actions, thus highlighting the need for serious institutional reforms. The Select Committee has done just that.

According to The Heritage Foundation’s nonpartisan Commission on China and COVID-19, chaired by former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, the recent pandemic was responsible for an estimated 28 million global “excess deaths,” including those of more than 1.1 million Americans, while inflicting devastating social and educational disruptions.

Beyond that, as the commission reported, America incurred a total economic cost of more than $18 trillion. Likewise, Heritage analysts also identified 13 specific areas where the federal government failed the American people—from mixed messaging on masking, to misleading information on vaccines and mandates—while outlining a framework for public health reform.

During the pandemic subcommittee’s Nov. 14 hearing, Wenstrup emphasized America’s need........

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