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Wind down the National Flood Insurance Program

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 5, p. 154. Written by Ken Cuccinelli.

Wind down the National Flood Insurance Program

The document says “should”Who acts: CongressHow: legislationp. 154 in the PDF
What the document says

“The NFIP should be wound down and replaced with private insurance starting with the least risky areas currently identified by the program.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 154

The National Flood Insurance Program provides federally backed flood cover where private insurers generally will not. The chapter says its subsidies encourage development in flood zones and increase potential losses to the program and the taxpayer, and asks for it to be wound down and replaced by private insurance, starting with the least risky areas.

What the document actually says

“The NFIP should be wound down and replaced with private insurance starting with the least risky areas currently identified by the program.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 154
That sentence, in plain words

Close down the federal flood insurance plan. Let private firms cover those homes instead. Start with the safest areas.

What this is about

Homes in flood areas are hard to insure. So the government sells the cover itself. The book says that helps people build in risky places. It wants private firms to take over.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing among the candidates concerns the National Flood Insurance Program. None of them winds it down, moves any part of its book to private insurers, or changes how flood risk zones are treated. 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. 154.
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    “Wind down the National Flood Insurance Program,” Project 2025, chapter 5, p. 154. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch05-wind-down-flood-insurance/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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