Mr. Biden’s cabinet is a study in attention deficit disorder. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas might be handling a border crisis were he not busy interviewing Mary Poppinses to head a “disinformation board.” Attorney General Merrick Garland is too tied up tracking parents at school-board meetings to tackle violent crime. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland blew through a deadline for a new offshore leasing plan to increase oil supply, focused as she is on creating a “Truth and Healing Commission.” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg —charged with unsnarling Covid supply-chain snags—was last seen unveiling a $1 billion pilot project to promote “racial equity” in America’s roads. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, was last seen . . . never.

Speaking of firing, Mr. Biden might start with what Politico last year described as the largest Executive Office of the President in recent history—at some 560 people. It’s an array of czars and advisers, all designed to centralize decision making, all a guarantee that nobody knows who is actually in charge. Yet while some players have chosen to leave the chaos ( Jen Psaki, Kate Bedingfield, anyone who ever worked for Kamala Harris ), the Biden team refuses to fire people and bring in new blood.

Firings are a president’s call, and Mr. Biden is indecisive. But it’s the job of those closest to him to deliver ugly truths, to insist executives understand who and what has gone wrong, and to push for change. Chief of staff Ron Klain appears to be indulging an administration-wide practice of blame-shifting and letting the same failed advisers offer more failing ideas. The recent rehire of Obama veteran Anita Dunn doesn’t seem to be producing any change.