Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

Mandy M. Gunasekara

xviii Authors, in the Mandate (2023)

“Mandy M. Gunasekara of Oxford, Mississippi, is a principal at Section VII Strategies, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum, and Visiting Fellow in the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation. During the Trump Administration, Mandy served as the Chief of Staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as well as Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation. She previously served in numerous roles at the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, including as Majority Counsel for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee under Chairman Jim Inhofe. She received her BA from Mississippi College and her JD from the University of Mississippi School of Law.”

In government

No executive-branch post found in a search on Sep 24, 2026. Senate nominations and White House appointments watched since, through Oct 16, 2026.

Bylined chapters

Major recommendations in those chapters

  1. Eliminate the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights Done
  2. Eliminate the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assistance Not started
  3. Issue a Day One executive order reorganizing EPA with pause-and-review teams Day one Partially done
  4. Stay and repropose existing major EPA rules and guidance Done
  5. Downsize EPA by terminating newest hires in low-value programs Partially done
  6. Cut EPA costs, FTEs, and duplicative programs via a tiered-down budget Partially done
  7. Return the air standard-setting role to Congress Needs Congress Not started
  8. Update the 2009 endangerment finding on a deadline Done
  9. Set greenhouse gas car standards under Department of Transportation leadership Partially done
  10. Restrict California's Clean Air Act waiver to California-specific issues Partially done
  11. Repeal and reissue WOTUS and CWA Section 401 regulations Partially done
  12. Issue a WOTUS rule codifying the Rapanos definition of navigable waters Needs Congress Partially done
  13. Revisit the CERCLA hazardous substance designation for PFAS Not started
  14. Eliminate the social cost of carbon and RCP 8.5 as regulatory inputs Day one Partially done
  15. Eliminate unauthorized ORD programs including IRIS Attempted
  16. Use the Congressional Review Act to disapprove EPA regulations Needs Congress Done
  17. Repeal or reform the Global Change Research Act of 1990 Needs Congress Attempted
  18. Redefine Environmental Justice and review EPA's Title VI authority Partially done

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