PROJECT 2025 –  #9

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This blog was created as a public service. It is a Cliff’s Notes version of the actual 900 pages of text found in PROJECT 2025. It is not a commentary. Most importantly - It DOES NOT reflect my opinion in any way.

 

Executive Office of the President – part 3
By Russ Vought

[Bio from Wikipedia – BA Weaton College, JD GWU. Acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, 2019-20. Founder, Center for Renewing America which is focused on combating critical race theory. In February 2023, the Center published a paper calling for a “dormant NATO, wherein Europe is the primary security provider of the European front.” Jeffrey Clark is the Center’s director of litigation]

 

NATIONAL SPACE COUNCIL (NSPC)

            Space projects and programs are risky, complex, expensive, and time consum­ing—although commercial space innovations are lowering costs and accelerating schedules. Nevertheless, while fiscal discipline should not be ignored, long-term policy stability is crucial to investors, innovators, industry, and agencies. Among the focuses are transitioning Inter­national Space Station operations to multiple, privately owned space platforms; and (most important) accelerating the acquisition and fielding of national security space capabilities in response to an increasingly aggressive China.

 

OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY (OSTP)

            The OSTP’s functions, as contained in the law, are to advise the President of scientific and technological considerations, evaluate the effectiveness of the federal effort, and generally lead and coordinate the federal government’s R&D programs. If science is being manipulated at the agencies to support separate political and institutional agendas, the President should increase the prominence of the OSTP’s Director either formally or informally.

            The President should also issue an executive order to reshape the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and related climate change research pro­grams. The USGCRP produces strategic plans and research (for example, the National Climate Assessment) that reduce the scope of legally proper options in presidential decision-making and in agency rulemakings and adjudications. The next President should critically analyze and, if required, refuse to accept any USGCRP assessment prepared under the Biden Administration.

            Finally, the next Administration will face a significant challenge in unwinding policies and procedures that are used to advance radical gender, racial, and equity initiatives under the banner of science. Similarly, the Biden Administration’s climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding. As with other federal departments and agencies, the Biden administrations leveraging of the federal governments resources to further the Will agenda should be reversed and scrubbed from all policy manuals, guidance, documents, and agendas, and scientific excellence and innovation should be restored as the OSTP’s top priority.

 

COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (CEQ)

            The Council on Environmental Quality is the EOP component with the prin­cipal task of administering the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The CEQ also coordinates environmental policy across the federal government. The President should issue an executive order establishing a Senior Advisor to coordinate the policy development and implementation of relevant energy and environment policy by officials across the and abolishing the existing Office of Domestic Cli­mate Policy. The President should eliminate the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) and by executive order should end the use of SCC analysis.

 

OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY (ONDCP)

                  The next President’s top drug policy priority must be to address the current fentanyl crisis and reduce the number of overdoses and fatalities. This crisis resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 Americans in 2021. The National Drug Control Program agencies represented a total of $41 billion in fiscal year 2022. Whereas the position for overseeing budget activities is traditionally held by a career official, it is imperative that a political appointee lead the ONDCP budget office to ensure coordination between the OMB Program Associate Director and the ONDCP budgetary appointee. it is vital that the ONDCP Director ensure in the immediate term that these grant programs are funding the President’s drug control priorities and not woke nonprofits with leftist policy agendas. Thus, the President must insure that the ONDCP is managed by political appointees who are committed to the Administration’s agenda and not acquiesce to management by political or career military personnel who oversaw the prior Administration’s ONDCP.

GENDER POLICY COUNCIL (GPC) 

            The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 1402041 and every policy, including subregulatory guidance documents, produced on behalf of or related to the establishment or promotion of the Gender Policy Council and its subsidiary issues. Abolishing the Gender Policy Council would eliminate central promotion of abortion (“health services”); comprehensive sexuality education (“education”); and the new woke gender ideology, which has as a principal tenet “gender affirming care” and “sex-change” surgeries on minors. In addition to elim­inating the council, developing new structures and positions will have the dual effect of demonstrating that promoting life and strengthening the family is a pri­ority while also facilitating more seamless coordination and consistency across the U.S. government. 

                  Specifically, the President should appoint a position/point of contact with the rank of Special Assistant to the President or higher to coordinate and lead the Pres­ident’s domestic priorities on issues related to life and family in cooperation with the Domestic Policy Council. This position would be responsible for facilitating meetings, discussions, and agreements among personnel; coordinating Adminis­tration policy; and ensuring agency support for implementation of policies related to the promotion of life and family in the United States.

Stay tuned for Blog #10 – Central Personnel Agencies: Managing the Bureaucracy
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