get out of the way

There, Bass told reporters that the city’s job was to ensure the project was able to move quickly through the permitting process and that “the role of government is to get out of the way.”

“You can either fully enforce protection for federal employees or get out of the way and let Texas Guard do it,” he wrote.

Agents ignored him, he said, and instead told him to get out of the way.

And then people don’t get out of the way.

It can be tempting to go faster to "get out of the way", but this can be dangerous.