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6. Department of State · Minor

Create a mentorship program for junior political appointees

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173 6. Department of State

“The secretary should capitalize on the more experienced political appointees by using them as the foundation for a mentorship program for less experienced political appointees.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    Searched; nothing found. Covered by cluster A in the chapter log: no mentorship program for political appointees appears in the Federal Register, in whitehouse.gov presidential actions, in the 2,313 State press releases published 2025-2026, or in the Foreign Affairs Manual. The Department's mentoring provisions in the FAM concern the Foreign Service, not appointees. Re-checked 2026-09-06 against the FY 2027 Congressional Budget Justification Appendix 1, which the Department published after that search: the word "mentor" does not appear in it at all.

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Category note: as with #464, an internal management practice with no public instrument. The negative search is recorded so this is distinguishable from an untouched placeholder.
Action
create
Object
Mentorship program for political appointees
ID
465