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Reexamine press access to space on the White House grounds

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 1, p. 29. Written by Rick Dearborn.

Reexamine press access to space on the White House grounds

The document says “should”Who acts: PresidentHow: internal managementp. 29 in the PDF
What the document says

“the next Administration should reexamine the balance between media demands and space constraints on the White House premises.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 29

The chapter states that no legal entitlement exists to permanent space for the media on the White House campus, and says the next Administration should reexamine the balance between media demands and space constraints on the premises. It does not say what change, if any, should follow.

What the document actually says

“the next Administration should reexamine the balance between media demands and space constraints on the White House premises.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 29
That sentence, in plain words

The next president should take another look at how much room the press gets at the White House.

What this is about

News reporters have desks and a room inside the White House. The chapter says no law says they must have that space. It says the next president should look again at how much room they get.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. No candidate concerns press facilities or the use of space on the White House grounds. The candidate whose title mentions space, Executive Order 14369, is about military activity in outer space. 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. 29.
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    “Reexamine press access to space on the White House grounds,” Project 2025, chapter 1, p. 29. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch01-press-space-on-the-grounds/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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