17. Department of Justice · Minor
Review the DOJ organizational chart and reporting chains
Printed page 570 17. Department of Justice
“The next conservative Administration should undertake a comprehensive review of the DOJ’s current organizational chart and make decisions about its structure—consistent with any authority to do so outside of congressional action—to ensure the most efficient accomplishment of the department’s missions.”
What has happened
- Partially done
The Acting Attorney General created the National Fraud Enforcement Division by memorandum in April 2026 and the department codified it in part 0 in August, setting out its authorities. Structural decisions are being taken and published; what the Quote asks for beyond them — a comprehensive review of the chart and the reporting chains — has produced no published report, and the reporting chains themselves (the FBI's included, see #1531) are unchanged.
- Partially done
The organizational chart is being changed without waiting for Congress. Within three weeks the department transferred the Tax Division's functions to the Civil and Criminal Divisions and eliminated the Office of the Executive Secretariat, consolidating it into the Justice Management Division — both by amendment to 28 CFR part 0, the regulation that is the chart.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Overlaps #1583, which reads the same rules as consolidation. The National Fraud Enforcement Division memorandum is at justice.gov/ag/media/1435311/dl and the codifying rule is in the Federal Register.
- Action
- other
- Object
- DOJ organizational chart and reporting chains
- ID
- 1586