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Stop enforcing treaties the Senate has not ratified

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

Stop enforcing treaties the Senate has not ratified

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

“order an immediate stand-down on enforcement of any treaties that have not been ratified by the Senate”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 175

The chapter says the department not only approves but enforces treaties the Senate has not ratified, and that the practice must be reviewed and most likely jettisoned. It asks that agreements which are really treaty commitments be identified with the Attorney General and White House Counsel, and that compliance be suspended pending transmittal to the Senate.

What the document actually says

“order an immediate stand-down on enforcement of any treaties that have not been ratified by the Senate”

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

Stop enforcing any treaty the Senate has not approved. Do it now.

What this is about

A treaty is only binding once the Senate says yes. The book says some are being enforced anyway. It says that should stop right away.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Acting on the review ordered by Executive Order 14199, the memorandum directs agencies to withdraw the United States from listed organizations and bodies. Leaving bodies the United States has joined is a different act from suspending enforcement of agreements the Senate never ratified. The memorandum does not sort agreements by whether the Senate gave advice and consent, orders no identification of treaty commitments with the Attorney General and White House Counsel, and suspends compliance with nothing pending transmittal to the Senate. 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. 175.
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    “Stop enforcing treaties the Senate has not ratified,” Project 2025, chapter 6, p. 175. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch06-stand-down-treaty-enforcement/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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