If you aren't advocating for doing nothing, but many parts of the federal government exist because nobody actually "handled things" in the "maybe someone else s

If you aren't advocating for doing nothing, but many parts of the federal government exist because nobody actually "handled things" in the "maybe someone else should be doing something" days prior to that part of the government getting created... then how do you actually propose making sure that "maybe someone should do something" gets turned into action?