Paul Dans
Title page, in the Mandate (2023)
Editor
Printed pages xxii–xxiii Authors, in the Mandate (2023)
“Paul Dans is Director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project at The Heritage Foundation, organizing policy and personnel recommendations and training for appointees in the next presidential Administration. Before joining Heritage, he served in the Trump Administration as Chief of Staff at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, as OPM’s White House liaison, and as a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Paul has extensive experience in high-stakes commercial litigation and worked for several large international law firms in New York City from 1997 to 2012 before founding his own law firm. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and received his graduate and undergraduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”
Printed page xiv A Note on “Project 2025”, in the Mandate (2023)
Director, Project 2025
In government
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Bylined chapters
Major recommendations in those chapters
- Chapter 3, printed page 72 End or narrow the disparate impact doctrine in federal hiring Done
- Chapter 3, printed page 81 Reinstate Schedule F (Executive Order 13957) Done
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