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Encourage more Arab states to join the Abraham Accords

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 6, p. 185. Written by Kiron K. Skinner.

Encourage more Arab states to join the Abraham Accords

The document says “should”Who acts: Secretary of StateHow: internal managementp. 185 in the PDF
What the document says

“the next Administration should build on the Trump”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 185

The full passage asks the next Administration to build on the Trump Administration's diplomatic successes by encouraging other Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, to enter the Abraham Accords, and says related policies should include reversing what it calls the Biden Administration's degradation of the partnership with Saudi Arabia. It says relations with Saudi Arabia should be strengthened in a way that curtails Chinese influence.

What the document actually says

“the next Administration should build on the Trump”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 185
That sentence, in plain words

The next team should build on what the Trump team did.

What this is about

The Abraham Accords are deals between Israel and some Arab states. The book wants more countries to join them. It names Saudi Arabia.

What has happened
Partly matches

Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes

2026-02-03 · 140 Stat. 173

Section 6611 adds a section 1015 to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to establish an Abraham Accords Office headed by a director, sited within two years in a country the Department of State identifies as having signed the Abraham Accords Declaration, to give technical assistance on regulatory oversight to partners in those countries and help interested parties there deal with the agency, with a report to Congress within three years. It builds on the Accords by attaching a standing federal benefit to having signed them. It does not do what the passage asks: it is addressed only to countries that have already signed, it encourages no further state to join, it names neither Saudi Arabia nor any other prospective party, it says nothing about the partnership with Saudi Arabia or about Chinese influence, and it is a drug regulatory measure carried out by the Food and Drug Administration rather than a diplomatic one.

In plain English

A 2026 spending law sets up an Abraham Accords Office in the drug agency. Within two years it must sit in a country that signed the accords. Its job is to help partners there deal with the agency. But it reaches only states that have signed, urges no new one to join, and is a drug rule step.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 185.
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    “Encourage more Arab states to join the Abraham Accords,” Project 2025, chapter 6, p. 185. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch06-expand-abraham-accords/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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