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Assign each overlapping policy area to a single council

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

Assign each overlapping policy area to a single council

The document says “will help to”Who acts: PresidentHow: internal managementp. 38 in the PDF
What the document says

“Identifying these potentially problematic areas and assigning policy responsibilities to only one council where possible will help to speed up the policy-coordination process.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 38

The chapter observes that the three policy councils overlap on immigration and border security, on health care, energy and environment, and on trade and international economic policy, and says assigning each such area to only one council where possible will speed up coordination.

What the document actually says

“Identifying these potentially problematic areas and assigning policy responsibilities to only one council where possible will help to speed up the policy-coordination process.”

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

Find the subjects that two teams share. Give each one to just one team. That will speed things up.

What this is about

Three groups in the White House handle policy. Some subjects belong to more than one of them. That can cause delay and confusion. The chapter says each subject should be given to just one group.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. The candidates concern grantee lobbying, an investment office, tariffs, supersonic flight and community development. None assigns an overlapping policy area to a single council or otherwise divides work among the National Security Council, the National Economic Council and the Domestic Policy Council. 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. 38.
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    “Assign each overlapping policy area to a single council,” Project 2025, chapter 1, p. 38. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch01-single-council-ownership/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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