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Halt any CIA program inconsistent with the President's agenda

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 7, p. 209. Written by Dustin J. Carmack.

Halt any CIA program inconsistent with the President's agenda

The document says “should”Who acts: CIAHow: internal managementp. 209 in the PDF
What the document says

“If senior leadership finds any program or operation to be inconsistent with the President’s agenda, the Director should immediately halt that program or operation.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 209

The chapter asks that the Director and Deputy Director request briefings on all agency activities and presence overseas, on all controlled access programs and on existing covert action findings without exception, and meet all directorates and mission centers, before halting anything found inconsistent with the President's agenda.

What the document actually says

“If senior leadership finds any program or operation to be inconsistent with the President’s agenda, the Director should immediately halt that program or operation.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 209
That sentence, in plain words

Say a program does not match what the president wants. Then the Director should stop it at once.

What this is about

The agency runs many secret programs. New leaders would be briefed on all of them. If one does not match the president's aims, it would be stopped.

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 CIA programs, controlled access programs or covert action findings. Executive Order 14356 governs federal hiring and Executive Order 14152 revokes the clearances of named former officials; neither directs any agency to review its own programs against the President's agenda or to halt what does not fit. 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. 209.
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    “Halt any CIA program inconsistent with the President's agenda,” Project 2025, chapter 7, p. 209. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch07-halt-programs-against-agenda/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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