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Hold regular meetings of Deputy Secretaries

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 1, p. 33. Written by Rick Dearborn.

Hold regular meetings of Deputy Secretaries

The document says “should”Who acts: Office of Cabinet AffairsHow: internal managementp. 33 in the PDF
What the document says

“It should also organize and administer regular meetings of the Deputy Secretaries”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 33

The chapter says the Office of Cabinet Affairs should organize and run regular meetings of Deputy Secretaries, on the grounds that they hold vital roles in departments and often become acting secretaries when a Cabinet member resigns.

What the document actually says

“It should also organize and administer regular meetings of the Deputy Secretaries”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 33
That sentence, in plain words

It should also set up meetings for the number two at each agency. These should happen often.

What this is about

Each department has a second in command. They often take over when the boss leaves. The chapter says the White House should hold regular meetings with them.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. The candidates are task forces on the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the 2028 Summer Olympics and the 250th anniversary of independence, a National Park Service rule on events in the National Capital Region, and a Veterans Affairs budget law. None concerns the Office of Cabinet Affairs or meetings of Deputy Secretaries. Whether such meetings are held is internal White House scheduling and would not ordinarily produce a published document. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 33.
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    “Hold regular meetings of Deputy Secretaries,” Project 2025, chapter 1, p. 33. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch01-cabinet-affairs-deputies-meetings/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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