‘Soft close’ DHS offices and redistribute career staff to enforcement
Mandate tells the Secretary to soft-close ineffective corners, shift personnel/funding to the Secretary and mission-essential components, and immediately move all law-enforcement-capable staff from office billets to field billets.
Mandate
Mandate Ch. 5 (Department of Homeland Security) — Soft Closure / Restructuring: use discretionary leadership to soft close ineffective and problematic corners; shift personnel, funding, and operational responsibility to mission-essential components including Office of the Secretary; redistribute career personnel; all personnel with law enforcement capacity should be removed immediately from office billets and deployed to field billets.
Undo plan
1) Halt soft closures that evade congressional appropriations and authorizing structure.
2) Restore HQ policy, civil rights, privacy, and oversight billets stripped for field surge theater.
3) Bargain workforce reassignments under existing labor law where applicable.
4) Publish office-by-office justification and metrics before reallocations.
5) Verify: staffing plans vs. enacted budgets; CRCL/privacy office capacity.
Sources
- https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
- https://archive.org/stream/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL_djvu.txt
- https://whatisproject2025.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-05.pdf
- https://whatisproject2025.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2025_MandateForLeadership_SECTION-02.pdf