Restoration plan
Execute in order. Early phases unlock later ones — personnel, Counsel, and OMB before agency-by-agency undos. Open a chapter for the numbered Mandate → Undo checklist.
Phase 0 · Day 0–7
0% restored · 60 points
Stabilize
Freeze further damage while the restoration map is locked in. Protect records, IGs, and ongoing legal obligations.
- 1. Inventory live EOs, Schedule F / Schedule Policy-Career conversions, and acting officials past FVRA windows.
- 2. Direct agencies to pause new Mandate-aligned reorganizations and RIFs pending review.
- 3. Protect Inspectors General, ethics offices, and records from destruction or politicized removal.
- 4. Stand up a Restoration Task Force (White House Counsel + OMB + OPM + DOJ) with a public tracker.
Phase 1 · Week 1–4
0% restored · 44 points
Retake the machinery
Without personnel, Counsel, and OMB norms restored, agency undos will not stick.
- 1. Personnel — Rescind Schedule F / successors; restore MSPB and OPM processes; end PPO-as-purge.
- 2. White House Counsel — Restore the Counsel–DOJ contacts firewall; end activist-Counsel and day-one litigation weaponization norms.
- 3. EOP / OMB — Return apportionment and regulatory clearance to lawful process; reverse politicized contracting litmus tests.
- 4. Succession — Restore career FVRA pipelines; end exclusive partisan staffing pipelines.
Phase 2 · Month 1–2
0% restored · 73 points
Rights and enforcement core
Highest human-impact domains. Delay here compounds irreversible harm.
- 1. Justice — Restore Civil Rights and Voting independence; reverse FBI subordination and politicized charging directives.
- 2. Homeland Security — Halt dismantle/scatter plans; restore asylum processing capacity; return CISA to its statutory cyber mission.
- 3. Education — Stop agency wind-down; restore OCR; protect FSA and student-aid operations.
- 4. HHS — Restore CDC/FDA scientific integrity, reproductive-health frameworks, and core program offices.
Phase 3 · Month 2–4
0% restored · 60 points
Climate, land, and energy
Rebuild science capacity and statutory environmental authorities.
- 1. EPA — Restore Clean Air Act tools, enforcement capacity, and science-based water rules consistent with law.
- 2. Interior — Reverse leasing giveaways and park/tribal rollbacks; restore science offices.
- 3. Energy — Reconstitute clean-energy and grid offices and IIJA–IRA implementation capacity.
- 4. Agriculture — Restore conservation, nutrition, and climate-aligned farm programs.
Phase 4 · Month 3–5
0% restored · 74 points
Economy and watchdogs
Worker, consumer, and market protections that Mandate sought to starve or abolish.
- 1. Labor — Restore wage/hour, organizing, and safety enforcement posture.
- 2. Treasury / IRS — Rebuild enforcement and taxpayer-service capacity stripped for ideology.
- 3. Financial regulators — Undo CFPB abolish/starve paths; restore SEC investor-protection rules.
- 4. FCC, FTC, FEC — Reverse speech, competition, and election-administration rollbacks.
Phase 5 · Month 4–6
0% restored · 108 points
Foreign, defense, and media
Run in parallel once domestic machinery holds — diplomacy, intel integrity, and public media.
- 1. State, USAID, Media — Restore development capacity, broadcasting independence, and career diplomacy.
- 2. Intelligence and Defense — Reverse politicization of intel and force-design extremes that cut readiness.
- 3. Trade, Commerce, Veterans — Case-by-case undos for tariffs, science agencies, and veterans services.
Phase 6 · Month 6–18
0% restored · 105 points
Codify so it does not rebound
EO-only fixes are temporary. Lock the restorations in statute and appropriations.
- 1. Civil-service statute locks — no Schedule F 2.0.
- 2. DOJ independence and White House–DOJ contacts statute.
- 3. Agency organic statutes where Mandate sought abolition (Education, CFPB, USAID pieces).
- 4. Appropriations floors for OCR, EPA enforcement, IRS service, and Inspectors General.
- 5. Public restoration dashboard with verify metrics from each item’s undo plan.