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Policy councils should move first on named cross-cutting priorities

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 1, p. 38. Written by Rick Dearborn.

Policy councils should move first on named cross-cutting priorities

The document says “will need to”Who acts: NSC, NEC, DPCHow: internal managementp. 38 in the PDF
What the document says

“incoming policy councils will need to move rapidly to lead policy processes around cross-cutting agency topics, including countering China, enforcing immigration laws”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 38

The chapter lists the cross-cutting topics on which incoming policy councils will need to move rapidly: countering China, enforcing immigration laws, reversing regulatory policies in order to promote energy production, combating what it calls the Left's attacks on life and religious liberty, and confronting what it calls wokeism throughout the federal government. The wording quoted here is the opening of that list.

What the document actually says

“incoming policy councils will need to move rapidly to lead policy processes around cross-cutting agency topics, including countering China, enforcing immigration laws”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 38
That sentence, in plain words

The new policy teams must act fast on big subjects. These subjects touch many parts of government. Two of them are China and immigration law.

What this is about

Some subjects touch many parts of government at once. The book names the ones to start with. They are China, immigration, and more energy. It also names two more fights. The book calls them fights about life, religion, and being woke.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14182 on enforcing the Hyde Amendment acts on one of the subjects the chapter lists for early council attention, but the proposal is about which body inside the White House leads a policy process, and the order says nothing about the policy councils or how they divide work. No candidate directs the councils to move on the listed topics. 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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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 38.
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    “Policy councils should move first on named cross-cutting priorities,” Project 2025, chapter 1, p. 38. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch01-council-priority-topics/ (retrieved October 8, 2026).

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