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The Domestic Policy Council Director should chair a standing meeting of EOP principals

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 1, p. 40. Written by Rick Dearborn.

The Domestic Policy Council Director should chair a standing meeting of EOP principals

The document says “should”Who acts: DPCHow: internal managementp. 40 in the PDF
What the document says

“To this end, the Director should chair a standing meeting with the principals from each of the other EOP offices to enhance coordination from within the White House.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 40

The chapter says the Domestic Policy Council needs to work closely with other offices in the Executive Office of the President, naming the Office of Management and Budget and its Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the Council of Economic Advisers, the Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and that the Director should chair a standing meeting of their principals.

What the document actually says

“To this end, the Director should chair a standing meeting with the principals from each of the other EOP offices to enhance coordination from within the White House.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 40
That sentence, in plain words

To do this, the Director should hold a set meeting. The heads of the other White House offices should come.

What this is about

Several offices inside the White House work on related things. The chapter says they do not talk enough. It says one director should hold a regular meeting with all of their heads.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14213 establishes the National Energy Dominance Council inside the Executive Office of the President and puts the heads of the policy councils, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Council of Economic Advisers, the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Management and Budget on it, so it does create a standing coordinating body among some of the same principals. It falls short because it is chaired by the Secretary of the Interior rather than the Director of the Domestic Policy Council, and it covers energy alone rather than the whole domestic agenda. 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. 40.
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    “The Domestic Policy Council Director should chair a standing meeting of EOP principals,” Project 2025, chapter 1, p. 40. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch01-dpc-standing-eop-meeting/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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