Presidential Cabinet Positions
Those four cabinet positions remain the most important to the president to this day with the war department having been replaced by the defense department.
Presidential cabinet positions. Elsewhere in the cabinet los angeles mayor eric garcetti who endorsed biden in early january and served on his vice presidential selection committee is a likely candidate for transportation or. Which exact positions are considered part of the presidential cabinet can vary with the president. The united states constitution does not explicitly establish a cabinet.
The head of the office of national drug control policy aka the drug czar was a cabinet level position under both bill clinton and george w. Vice president john adams was not included in washington s cabinet as it was not until the 20th century that the vice president s office was considered a cabinet position. The president of the united states cabinet serves as a group of advisers to the president representing federal agencies and other offices in the executive branch.
But his cabinet which includes the heads of 15 executive departments and others such as the vice president and white house chief of staff hasn t remained the same since he took office. Bush but not under barack obama. The president can appoint almost 1300 federal positions in the executive branch that the senate then reviews and approves.
Cabinet level positions there are currently seven positions that are not considered to be an official part of the president s cabinet but that have cabinet level rankings. Trump s cabinet includes vice president mike pence and the heads of the 15 executive departments the secretaries of agriculture commerce defense education energy. The most prestigious positions appointed by the president are known as the president s cabinet.
The cia and fema were cabinet level agencies under bill clinton but not george w. White house chief of staff administrator of the environmental protection agency director of the office of management budget united states trade representative united states ambassador to the united nations chairman of the council of economic advisers administrator of the small business. The cabinet is composed of 15 chief roles of executive administrative departments.
While not officially part of the cabinet the following positions currently have cabinet rank status.