On a near daily basis, the White House provides countless examples, big and small, of its unparalleled incompetence. From not being aware that Obama’s staff would have to be replaced at the end of his term; to its botched travel bans; to holding a strategy session on North Korea in the middle of the Mar-a-Lago dining room; to its press secretary hiding amongst shrubbery to avoid questions about his boss firing the director of the F.B.I., each day of the Trump administration is like an Advent calendar of tragicomic mishaps.

Of course, when it comes to Team Trump’s ineptitude, few things compare to its failed attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare, which the president vowed on the campaign trail to do on “day one” and which his party, the one that controls Congress, has been vowing to do since the moment Obamacare was signed into law more than seven years ago. For those who are visual learners, it’s been the equivalent of watching a 3-second clip, played on loop, of someone falling down a flight of stairs and hitting every single step on the way down, over and over again. On the bright side, everything else the White House does—or fails to do—looks practically virtuosic, by comparison. That’s really the only way to explain this recent Axios report, headlined “Tax reform shocker,” outlining all the progress the administration has supposedly made on tax reform:

The White House actually seems to have its act together on tax reform. Activists and business leaders who've been meeting with Gary Cohn, Steven Mnuchin, Marc Short & Paul Teller from legislative affairs, and Sean Spicer (who’s leading the comms strategy), all tell us the same thing: They’re surprised about how much planning and organizing the White House has already done, given its ham-handed approach to the health-care rollout.

You know the bar is really, really low when it comes as a surprise that the people who are trying to pass comprehensive tax reform, which hasn’t been done in 30 years, are planning and organizing. The tax reform team is even “engaging C.E.O.s across the country, looking for them to hold town halls, do media appearances, and write letters to their employees explaining the benefits of tax reform,” we are told. Groups like the Business Roundtable and the Koch brothers’ network are “fired up” about the project, which Trump himself is reportedly going to pitch “aggressively” by “barnstorming the states he won in November.” The White House is even expected to “float a few tax policy trial balloons in August.”

But before you start grading the Trump administration on a cartoonishly large curve, it’s worth noting just a few caveats, one of which is the fact that nobody has agreed on “how (or if) to pay for all these tax cuts.”