Section 1 · Taking the Reins of Government
🏛️Ch. 1 — White House Office
WHO · 15 tracked
Amplify Cabinet Affairs as White House agenda-enforcement through agencies
Proposed
Mandate says amplifying Cabinet Affairs’ role tracking and advancing the President’s agenda through each department and agency would benefit the President and the conservative movement.
Empower Public Liaison as carrot-and-stick gatekeeper over interest groups
Proposed
Mandate casts OPL as the chief White House enforcer and gatekeeper among interest groups, working best when the Chief of Staff authorizes both carrot and stick, with an outsized role in presidential scheduling and travel.
Reorient Intergovernmental Affairs to sell the Administration agenda to states
Proposed
Mandate says IGA’s primary job is to make state, county, local, and tribal governments understand and ultimately support the Administration’s agenda—not merely represent their interests upward.
Drive policy councils on Mandate cross-cuts (immigration, energy, “wokeism,” etc.)
Proposed
Mandate tells incoming policy councils to move rapidly on cross-cutting topics: countering China, enforcing immigration laws, reversing regulatory policy for energy production, combating attacks on life and religious liberty, and confronting “wokeism” throughout the federal government.
Limit NSC detailees to tighten presidential control of national security staff
Proposed
Mandate notes NSC staff was cut from a peak of ~400 toward 100–150 professionals and says the next Administration should try to limit detailees to ensure more direct presidential control.
Assign exclusive policy-council ownership of overlapping portfolios
Proposed
Mandate flags overlaps (immigration/border; health/energy/environment; trade/international economy) and says assigning each problematic area to only one council will speed coordination.
DPC economic-opportunity working group, health-cost agenda, and border coordination
Proposed
Mandate directs DPC to chair an economic-opportunity working group, promote health-care reform to cut costs and budget pressure, and coordinate with NSC on a border-security policy agenda.
Centralize WHO command under Chief of Staff with PPO-selected agency liaisons
Proposed
Mandate directs the Chief of Staff to impose a simple WHO org chart with clear lines of authority and White House Liaisons—chosen by Presidential Personnel—as the contact points into every agency.
Park IGA, OPA, and OPL under Deputy Chief for Policy as a political conduit
Proposed
Mandate recommends routing Intergovernmental Affairs, Political Affairs, and Public Liaison under the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy so WHO outreach plugs directly into state parties, grasstops, and grassroots.
Remake White House Counsel as agenda-loyal “activist plaintiffs’ firm”
Proposed
Mandate rejects Counsel as a cautious institutional check and instead wants lawyers deeply committed to the President’s agenda—loyalty over elite credentials—who advocate like an activist plaintiffs’ firm within legal bounds.
Reexamine White House–DOJ contact limits beyond Counsel↔AG/DAG
Proposed
Mandate says the next Administration should reexamine the traditional policy that White House–DOJ contact occurs only between White House Counsel and the Attorney General or Deputy Attorney General, and consider additional channels.
Day-one litigation sweep to reverse prior Administration legal positions
Proposed
Mandate tells Counsel to get up to speed immediately on significant executive-branch litigation and present recommendations to reconsider or reverse the prior Administration’s positions that challenge the new agenda.
Reexamine White House press facilities and the Correspondents Association
Proposed
Mandate asserts there is no legal entitlement to permanent media space on the White House campus and says the Administration should reexamine media/space balance and whether an alternative to the White House Correspondents Association is more suitable.
PPO mass-staffing of political jobs and Schedule F workforce plans
Proposed
Mandate makes PPO central to filling ~1,000 Senate-confirmed and ~3,000 political jobs with dedicated conservatives, including early workforce plans such as Schedule F, OPM Title 5 control, and PPO as the “bad cop” for hirings and firings.
Build deep political appointee benches below senior levels
Proposed
Mandate urges robust cadres of political staff just below senior levels so departments can fill unexpected vacancies despite civil-service and Federal Vacancies Reform Act constraints.