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Sign an updated order on federal takings

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 2, p. 50. Written by Russ Vought.

Sign an updated order on federal takings

The document says “should”Who acts: PresidentHow: executive orderp. 50 in the PDF
What the document says

“the President should revise and sign an updated version of President Ronald Reagan’s Executive Order 12630 on federal takings.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 50

Executive Order 12630, signed in 1988, directs agencies to assess whether their actions amount to a taking of private property requiring compensation under the Fifth Amendment. The chapter says the President should revise and sign an updated version.

What the document actually says

“the President should revise and sign an updated version of President Ronald Reagan’s Executive Order 12630 on federal takings.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 50
That sentence, in plain words

President Reagan signed an order about land. The president should update it. Then he should sign it again.

What this is about

Sometimes a government rule cuts what an owner can do with land. The Constitution says owners must be paid when property is taken. An old order made agencies check for this. The book wants a new version of it.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. No candidate revises or replaces Executive Order 12630 of 1988, and none of the candidates concerns the taking of private property or compensation under the Fifth Amendment. The candidates cover missile defense, tariffs, controlled substance ordering forms, a Medicare payment model and alien registration. 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. 50.
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    “Sign an updated order on federal takings,” Project 2025, chapter 2, p. 50. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch02-takings-order/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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