# Domestic Policy Council The **Domestic Policy Council (DPC)** is the White House body that coordinates development and implementation of the President's non-economic domestic agenda. It was established by **Executive Order 12859**, signed August 16, 1993, which split the old Office of Policy Development into two co-equal councils — the DPC and the National Economic Council. The order made the President chairman and seated the Vice President and most Cabinet secretaries as members; day-to-day work runs through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and a small staff inside the [[Executive Office of the President Hub]]. Brooke Rollins, later founder of the [[America First Policy Institute]] and Trump's Agriculture Secretary, directed the council in the first Trump term. ## Why It Matters Here On **July 4, 2026**, the DPC published *"Saving America's Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage,"* the report that opened the second Trump administration's public campaign against the [[Smithsonian Institution]]. The report was issued under the authority of [[Executive Order 14253]], and [[Executive Order 14416]] later named the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy as one of four officials directed to force compliance with its findings. The council is therefore the drafting shop for the founding-narrative campaign, not merely a clearinghouse for it. ## See Also - [[Executive Office of the President Hub]] — the parent structure - [[Smithsonian Institution]] — the target of the July 2026 report - [[Executive Order 14253]] · [[Executive Order 14416]] — the orders the report sits between ## Directors and what the seat is for The Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy is a White House staff post, not a Senate-confirmed one, which is why it has been filled by ideological drafters rather than administrators: Bruce Reed and then Neera Tanden for Democratic presidents, [[Brooke Rollins]] (2018–21) and then Joe Grogan under Trump, and in the second term **Vince Haley** — a Trump speechwriter and former Gingrich aide, announced December 2024 and in office from January 20, 2025 — with [[Stephen Miller]] above him as deputy chief of staff for policy. The council's second-term output reads accordingly: the founding-narrative campaign against the [[Smithsonian Institution]], the executive orders on federal-workforce ideology, and the coordination of the culture-war provisions that ride inside otherwise administrative orders. Where the National Economic Council negotiates, the DPC drafts.