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Reinstate the order on securing the bulk power system

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 12, p. 373. Written by Bernard L. McNamee.

Reinstate the order on securing the bulk power system

The document says “should”Who acts: PresidentHow: executive orderp. 373 in the PDF
What the document says

“A good first step would be to reinstate an iteration of the Trump Administration’s Executive Order 13920”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 373

Executive Order 13920 restricted the use of bulk power system equipment supplied by foreign adversaries. The chapter says the cyber and energy security office is properly focused on threats to the grid from inverter-based resources like wind and solar but needs to cover the whole energy system, including the link between natural gas and electricity generation, and cybersecurity.

What the document actually says

“A good first step would be to reinstate an iteration of the Trump Administration’s Executive Order 13920”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 373
That sentence, in plain words

A good first step is bringing back one Trump order. Its number is 13920.

What this is about

One order limited foreign parts in the power grid. The worry was that they could be used to attack it. The book says that order should come back.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The notice of May 9, 2025 continues for one year the national emergency declared by Executive Order 13873 in 2019 over the information and communications technology and services supply chain. That emergency addresses equipment supplied by foreign adversaries, which is the same concern, but in communications technology rather than the grid. It is not Executive Order 13920, and nothing indexed reinstates that order or any version of it for bulk-power system equipment. 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. 373.
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    “Reinstate the order on securing the bulk power system,” Project 2025, chapter 12, p. 373. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch12-reinstate-bulk-power-order/ (retrieved October 8, 2026).

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