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

1. White House Office · Minor

Place IGA, OPA, and OPL under the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy

Not started

26 1. White House Office

“In some Administrations, the functions of the IGA, OPA, and OPL and other advisers within the WHO have fallen under the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. For conservatives, this arrangement could help to connect the WHO's outreach to political and external groups and be a strong conduit for state and local elected officials, state party organizations, and both grasstop and grassroots groups.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    Nothing on the public record places the Offices of Intergovernmental Affairs, Political Affairs and Public Liaison under the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. The Annual Report to Congress on White House Office Personnel shows all four offices staffed — a Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy with his own directorate, and separate directors of IGA, OPA and OPL at Deputy Assistant to the President rank — but records no reporting lines, and no delegation, order or organizational document assigning them appears in the whitehouse.gov presidential-actions Corpus or the Federal Register since 2025-01-20. The ask is unsourced either way, which under ADR 0003 is not-started with a recorded negative search.

Research log

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

Research notes

Researched 2026-08-27, in one search that covered all of Chapter 1’s White House staffing asks.

  • This is a reporting-line ask, and reporting lines are the one thing the personnel report does not record.
  • What the 2026 report does show is a substantial Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy — Stephen Miller as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, a Director of the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, three senior policy advisers to the Deputy Chief of Staff and a special assistant. IGA, OPA and OPL each have their own directors at Deputy Assistant to the President rank (Ashley A. Walukevich, Matthew R. Brasseaux, James L. Goyer). Whether those three directors report through Miller is not stated anywhere on the public record.
  • Negative search: presidential actions and the Federal Register for any delegation or reorganization placing IGA, OPA or OPL under a deputy chief of staff — nothing.
Action
transfer
Object
Offices of Intergovernmental Affairs, Political Affairs, and Public Liaison
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