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Consider refusing to accept climate assessments from the previous Administration

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 2, p. 60. Written by Russ Vought.

Consider refusing to accept climate assessments from the previous Administration

The document says “should”Who acts: PresidentHow: not specifiedp. 60 in the PDF
What the document says

“The next President should critically analyze and, if required, refuse to accept any USGCRP assessment prepared under the Biden Administration.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 60

The chapter says the next President should critically analyze assessments produced by the Global Change Research Program under the Biden Administration and, if required, refuse to accept them. It names no instrument for doing so.

What the document actually says

“The next President should critically analyze and, if required, refuse to accept any USGCRP assessment prepared under the Biden Administration.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 60
That sentence, in plain words

The next president should look hard at any climate report written under President Biden. He should refuse it if he needs to.

What this is about

The book says the next president should study these climate reports closely. If he does not accept a report, he can say so. It does not say how he would do that.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. The two cases among the candidates were filed before 2025 and concern oil and gas leasing rather than the Global Change Research Program. No candidate records a decision to accept or refuse an assessment prepared under the previous Administration. 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. 60.
    https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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    “Consider refusing to accept climate assessments from the previous Administration,” Project 2025, chapter 2, p. 60. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch02-reject-prior-climate-assessments/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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