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{{See also|Cabinet of Donald Trump}}
 
The current cabinet and the order of Presidential succession after the Vice President, Speaker of the House and President ''pro tempore'' of the Senate is as follows:<ref>[http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html President Bush's Cabinet]</ref>
 
The current cabinet and the order of Presidential succession after the Vice President, Speaker of the House and President ''pro tempore'' of the Senate is as follows:<ref>[http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html President Bush's Cabinet]</ref>
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President [[Donald Trump]]'s cabinet as of 2017:<ref name="WhiteHouse2/8/17"/>
  
 
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|[[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]]||[[Hillary Rodham Clinton]]||[[Condoleezza Rice]]
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|[[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]]||[[Rex Tillerson]]||[[John Kerry]]
 
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|[[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]]||[[Timothy Geithner]]||[[Henry M. Paulson|Henry M. Paulson, Jr.]]
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|[[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]]||[[Steven Mnuchin]]||[[Jack Lew]]
 
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|[[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]]||[[Robert Gates]]||[[Donald Rumsfeld]]
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|[[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]]||[[James Mattis]]||[[Ashton Carter]]
 
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|[[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]]||[[Eric Holder]]||[[Alberto Gonzales]]
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|[[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]]||[[Jeff Sessions]]||[[Loretta Lynch]]
 
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|[[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]]||[[Ken Salazar]]||[[Dirk Kempthorne|Dirk A. Kempthorne]]
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|[[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]]||[[Ryan Zinke]]||[[Sally Jewell]]
 
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|[[United States Secretary of Agriculture|Secretary of Agriculture]]||[[Tom Vilsack]]||[[Mike Johanns|Michael O. Johanns]]
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|[[United States Secretary of Agriculture|Secretary of Agriculture]]||[[Sonny Perdue]]||[[Tom Vilsack]]
 
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|[[United States Secretary of Commerce|Secretary of Commerce]]||[[Gary Locke]]||[[Carlos M. Gutierrez]]*
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|[[United States Secretary of Commerce|Secretary of Commerce]]||[[Wilbur Ross]]||[[Penny Pritzker]]
 
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|[[Secretary of Labor]]||[[Hilda Solis]]||[[Elaine Chao]]*
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|[[Secretary of Labor]]||[[Alexander Acosta]]<ref>Trump originally nominated [[Andrew Puzder]], but he withdrew.</ref>||[[Thomas Perez]]
 
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|[[Secretary of Health and Human Services]]||[[Kathleen Sebelius]]||[[Michael O. Leavitt]]
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|[[Secretary of Health and Human Services]]||[[Tom Price]]||[[Sylvia Mathews Burwell]]
 
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|[[Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]]||[[Shaun Donovan]]||[[Alphonso R. Jackson]]
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|[[Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]]||[[Ben Carson]]||[[Julian Castro]]
 
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|[[Secretary of Transportation]]||[[Ray LaHood]]||[[Mary Peters (politician)|Mary E. Peters]]
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|[[Secretary of Transportation]]||[[Elaine Chao]]||[[Anthony Foxx]]
 
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|[[Secretary of Energy]]||[[Steven Chu]]||[[Samuel W. Bodman]]
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|[[Secretary of Energy]]||[[Rick Perry]]||[[Ernest Moniz]]
 
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|[[Secretary of Education]]||[[Arne Duncan]]||[[Margaret Spellings]]
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|[[Secretary of Education]]||[[Betsy DeVos]]||[[John King]]
 
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|[[Secretary of Veterans Affairs]]||[[Eric Shinseki]]**||[[Jim Nicholson (U.S. politician)|Jim Nicholson]]
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|[[Secretary of Veterans Affairs]]||[[David Shulkin]]||[[Robert McDonald]]
 
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|[[Secretary of Homeland Security]]||[[Janet Napolitano]]||[[Michael Chertoff]]
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> The order of succession will skip anyone who is ineligible to hold the office of the President. The former Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao are not natural-born citizens, and therefore were ineligible.
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> The order of succession will skip anyone who is ineligible to hold the office of the President. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao is not a natural-born citizen and therefore is ineligible.
 
<nowiki>**</nowiki> Resigned on May 30, 2014.
 
<nowiki>**</nowiki> Resigned on May 30, 2014.
  
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There are also officers of the Cabinet who do not have the title Secretary.  They are:
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There are also officers of the Cabinet who do not have the title Secretary.  They are:<ref name="WhiteHouse2/8/17">[https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/08/president-donald-j-trump-announces-his-cabinet President Donald J. Trump Announces His Cabinet]. ''whitehouse.gov''. February 8, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2017.</ref>
  
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| White House [[Chief of staff]] || [[Reince Priebus]]
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| [[United States Trade Representative]] || [[Robert Lighthizer]]
 
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|[[Vice President of the United States]]||[[Joseph Biden]]||[[Dick Cheney]]
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| [[Director of National Intelligence]] || [[Dan Coats]]
 
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|[[White House Chief of Staff]]||[[Rahm Emanuel]]||[[Joshua B. Bolten]]
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| [[Representative of the United States to the United Nations]] || [[Nikki Haley]]
 
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|[[Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency]]||[[Lisa P. Jackson]]||[[Stephen L. Johnson]]
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| Director of the [[Office of Management and Budget]] || [[Mick Mulvaney]]
 
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|[[Office of Management and Budget|Director of the Office of Management and Budget]]||[[Peter R. Orszag]]||[[Robert J. Portman]]
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| Director of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] || [[Mike Pompeo]]
 
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|[[Director of the National Drug Control Policy]]||[[Edward H. Jurith]]||[[John P. Walters]]
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| Administrator of the [[Environmental Protection Agency]] || [[Scott Pruitt]]
 
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|[[Office of the United States Trade Representative|United States Trade Representative]]||[[Ron Kirk]]||[[Susan Schwab]]
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| Administrator of the [[Small Business Administration]] || [[Linda McMahon]]
 
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Revision as of 22:29, March 10, 2017

The United States Cabinet refers to the most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of the United States federal government.

The first Cabinet formed by President George Washington, consisted of four people; Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson; Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton; Secretary of War, Henry Knox; and Attorney General, Edmund Randolph.

Nomination

All members of the Cabinet are nominated by the President. The United States Senate then holds a vote to either confirm or reject any nominees. This process comes from Article II, section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which says the president "shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for..." [1]

The president does have the option of making a "recess appointment" when the Senate is in between sessions, or which in recess during a session. An appointment of this type will expire at the end of the following congressional session.

Terms

Cabinet positions customarily end when the president who nominated them steps down from office. Cabinet members can be fired by the President at any time. In some cases members of the cabinet will tender their resignation if controversy arises (i.e. Donald Rumsfeld).

Members

See also: Cabinet of Donald Trump

The current cabinet and the order of Presidential succession after the Vice President, Speaker of the House and President pro tempore of the Senate is as follows:[2]

President Donald Trump's cabinet as of 2017:[3]

Office Cabinet member Predecessor
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson John Kerry
Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin Jack Lew
Secretary of Defense James Mattis Ashton Carter
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Loretta Lynch
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke Sally Jewell
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue Tom Vilsack
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross Penny Pritzker
Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta[4] Thomas Perez
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson Julian Castro
Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao Anthony Foxx
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry Ernest Moniz
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos John King
Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin Robert McDonald
Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly Jeh Johnson

* The order of succession will skip anyone who is ineligible to hold the office of the President. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao is not a natural-born citizen and therefore is ineligible. ** Resigned on May 30, 2014.

There are also officers of the Cabinet who do not have the title Secretary. They are:[3]

Office Cabinet member
White House Chief of staff Reince Priebus
United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats
Representative of the United States to the United Nations Nikki Haley
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mike Pompeo
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt
Administrator of the Small Business Administration Linda McMahon

References

  1. ↑ Nominations
  2. ↑ President Bush's Cabinet
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 President Donald J. Trump Announces His Cabinet. whitehouse.gov. February 8, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  4. ↑ Trump originally nominated Andrew Puzder, but he withdrew.
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