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Revoke other agencies' authority to negotiate international agreements

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 6, p. 175. Written by Kiron K. Skinner.

Revoke other agencies' authority to negotiate international agreements

The document says “must”Who acts: Secretary of StateHow: internal managementp. 175 in the PDF
What the document says

“The Secretary of State must revoke most outstanding C-175 authorities that have been granted to other agencies during previous Administrations”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 175

C-175 authority lets an agency other than the State Department negotiate an international agreement. The chapter says most such grants should be revoked, closely coordinated with the White House, but that Homeland Security should keep or regain its authority for negotiating bilateral and multilateral security agreements.

What the document actually says

“The Secretary of State must revoke most outstanding C-175 authorities that have been granted to other agencies during previous Administrations”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 175
That sentence, in plain words

Other agencies were given power to make deals abroad. The Secretary must take most of it back.

What this is about

Only the State Department normally makes deals abroad. Other agencies were given that power too. The book says most of it should be taken back.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed here comes close. No candidate concerns Circular 175 authority or the power of agencies other than the State Department to negotiate international agreements. The two nearest, the foreign assistance award term rules of January 27, 2026, attach conditions to State Department grants and cooperative agreements; they govern the terms of money, not who may negotiate for the United States. 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. 175.
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    “Revoke other agencies' authority to negotiate international agreements,” Project 2025, chapter 6, p. 175. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch06-revoke-c175-authorities/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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