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Remove references to transforming the food system from department material

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 10, p. 293. Written by Daren Bakst.

Remove references to transforming the food system from department material

The document says “should”Who acts: USDAHow: internal managementp. 293 in the PDF
What the document says

“the USDA should remove all references”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 293

The full passage asks that a new Administration announce its principles through an executive order and that the department remove all references to transforming the food system from its website and other material. The chapter says the department should not place ancillary issues such as climate change ahead of food productivity and affordability.

What the document actually says

“the USDA should remove all references”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 293
That sentence, in plain words

The department should take all of these mentions out.

What this is about

The department talks about changing the food system. The book says that is not its job. It wants those words removed from its website.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The nearest Agriculture Department candidate revises internal delegations of authority and removes no language from department material. The other removal candidates belong elsewhere: one strikes references to rescinded Council on Environmental Quality regulations, another corrects office names at the Surface Transportation Board. Nothing indexed removes references to transforming the food system from the department's website or publications, and no executive order announcing the principles the chapter asks for appears among the candidates. 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. 293.
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    “Remove references to transforming the food system from department material,” Project 2025, chapter 10, p. 293. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch10-remove-food-system-language/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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