As Tax Day approaches, Americans can be proud to know that half-a-trillion of their hard-earned tax dollars are providing incomes for the mob, crooked doctors, overpriced contractors, incompetent bureaucrats, and — worst of all — Members of Congress.

And thanks to the political games of one of those Members, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (R-NV), we don’t have any way to follow the money.

Two years ago, Reid stopped the Taxpayers Right to Know Act from becoming law. This was a bill that passed both the U.S. House and a Senate committee with bipartisan support, and would have laid bare “a very…low-ball estimate” of $200 billion lost each year to redundant federal spending. (For a point of comparison, the White House has projected a $3.9 trillion budget in 2016, with a deficit of about $615 billion. The Congressional Budget Office says the deficit will be closer to $530 billion.)

Thanks to Reid, the legislation died quietly, just one of many no-brainer bills buried in the graveyard that is Congress. And now he’s at it again, according to the bill’s Senate sponsor:

Lankford told me that Reid’s move “seems to be a focus on … having the Senate run as slow as possible and get the least amount done.”