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Proposed cabinet of Donald Trump

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The Cabinet of Donald Trump will replace President Barack Obama's Cabinet in 2017. As of election day of the US Presidential election of 2016, President-elect of the United States Donald Trump had not announced cabinet members. Media reporting included close advisors and confidantes such as Reince Priebus, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, and retired general Michael T. Flynn.^[1]

Contents

• 1 Confirmed positions
  • 1.1 Cabinet
  • 1.2 Cabinet-level officials
• 2 Possible candidates for Cabinet positions
  • 2.1 Secretary of State
  • 2.2 Secretary of Treasury
  • 2.3 Secretary of Defense
  • 2.4 Attorney General
  • 2.5 Secretary of the Interior
  • 2.6 Secretary of Agriculture
  • 2.7 Secretary of Commerce
  • 2.8 Secretary of Labor
  • 2.9 Secretary of Health and Human Services
  • 2.10 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
  • 2.11 Secretary of Transportation
  • 2.12 Secretary of Energy
  • 2.13 Secretary of Education
  • 2.14 Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  • 2.15 Secretary of Homeland Security
• 3 Possible candidates for Cabinet-level officials
  • 3.1 Director of the Office of Management and Budget
  • 3.2 Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
  • 3.3 United States Trade Representative
  • 3.4 Ambassador to the United Nations
  • 3.5 Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
  • 3.6 Administrator of the Small Business Administration
• 4 See also
• 5 References

Confirmed positions

The following are Cabinet position officials and Cabinet-level officials which have been confirmed by the Trump Administration.

Cabinet

Cabinet
Office (statutory basis)	Nominee	Term begins
Vice President (Constitution, Art. II, Sec. I)	Mike Pence	January 20, 2017 (without Senate confirmation)
Secretary of State (22 U.S.C. § 2651a)		TBA
Secretary of the Treasury (31 U.S.C. § 301)		TBA
Secretary of Defense (10 U.S.C. § 113)		TBA
Attorney General (28 U.S.C. § 503)		TBA
Secretary of the Interior (43 U.S.C. § 1451)		TBA
Secretary of Agriculture (7 U.S.C. § 2202)		TBA
Secretary of Commerce (15 U.S.C. § 1501)		TBA
Secretary of Labor (29 U.S.C. § 551)		TBA
Secretary of Health and Human Services (Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953, 67 Stat. 631 and 42 U.S.C. § 3501)		TBA
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (42 U.S.C. § 3532)		TBA
Secretary of Transportation (49 U.S.C. § 102)		TBA
Secretary of Energy (42 U.S.C. § 7131)		TBA
Secretary of Education (20 U.S.C. § 3411)		TBA
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (38 U.S.C. § 303)		TBA
Secretary of Homeland Security (6 U.S.C. § 112)		TBA

Cabinet-level officials

Cabinet-level Officials
Office	Nominee	Term begins
White House Chief of Staff (Pub.L. 76–19, 53 Stat. 561, enacted April 3, 1939, Executive Order 8248, Executive Order 10452, Executive Order 12608)	Reince Priebus[2]	January 20, 2017 (without Senate confirmation)
Director of the Office of Management and Budget (3 U.S.C. § 301, Executive Order 11541, Executive Order 11609, Executive Order 11717)		TBA
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (5 U.S.C. § 906, Executive Order 11735)		TBA
Trade Representative (19 U.S.C. § 2171)		TBA
Ambassador to the United Nations (Executive Order 9844, Executive Order 10108)		TBA
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (15 U.S.C. § 1023)		TBA
Administrator of the Small Business Administration (15 U.S.C. § 633)		TBA

Possible candidates for Cabinet positions

After election day, media outlets reported on persons described by various sources as possible appointments to senior positions in the incoming Trump presidency. Until the Trump Administration annouces their official cabinet, this page will continue to be updated with new information and potential positions. Names mentioned included:

Secretary of State

Image	Name	Description
	John R. Bolton	Former United States ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush.[3]
	Bob Corker	U.S. Senator from Tennessee and chair of the Committee on Foreign Relations.[4]
	Zalmay Khalilzad	Former United States ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush.[3]
	Stanley A. McChrystal	Retired U.S. Army general and former senior military commander in Afghanistan.[3]

Secretary of Treasury

Image	Name	Description
	Thomas Barrack Jr.	Private equity real estate investor; founder, chairman and CEO of Colony Capital[3]
	Jeb Hensarling	Chairman of the House Financial Services committee, U.S. Representative from Texas's 5th congressional district[5]
	Steven Mnuchin	Goldman Sachs partner; Relativity Media movie producer; Trump campaign finance chairman.[6][7]
	Tim Pawlenty	Former Governor of Minnesota[3]

Secretary of Defense

Image	Name	Description
	Kelly Ayotte	Member of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services from New Hampshire, lost reelection in 2016.[8]
	Michael T. Flynn	Retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.[1][9] Federal law requires retired military officers to wait a minimum of 7 years before they can be put in charge of Pentagon as a civilian. A special act of Congress would be required before Flynn could be confirmed as Defense Secretary.[10]
	Stephen Hadley	Former U.S. National Security Advisor[11][4]
	Jon Kyl	Former U.S. Senator from Arizona[5]
	Jeff Sessions	Member of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services from Alabama.[4][12]

Attorney General

Image	Name	Description
	Chris Christie	Governor of New Jersey, former United States Attorney - District of New Jersey[5]
	Rudy Giuliani	Former United States Attorney - Southern District of New York, former Associate Attorney General, former Mayor of New York City.[4][12]
	Trey Gowdy	U.S. Representative from South Carolina, former prosecutor.
	Jeff Sessions	U.S. Senator from Alabama, former United States Attorney - Southern District of Alabama[5]

Secretary of the Interior

Real Property Bros.	Material Accountability for "The Wall"

Secretary of Agriculture

Image	Name	Description
	Sam Brownback	Governor of Kansas[5]
	Chuck Conner	Former Acting United States Secretary of Agriculture[5]
	Sid Miller	Texas Agriculture Commissioner[13]
	Sonny Perdue	Former Governor of Georgia[5]

Secretary of Commerce

Image	Name	Description
	Chris Christie	Governor of New Jersey[5]
	Dan DiMicco	Former Nucor CEO and Trump trade adviser[5]
	Lewis Eisenberg	Businessman and RNC Finance Chair[5]

Secretary of Labor

Image	Name	Description
	Victoria Lipnic	Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards.[4][12]

Secretary of Health and Human Services

Image	Name	Description
	Ben Carson	Author, retired director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, and former candidate for president against Trump in the Republican primaries.[14][4]
	Mike Huckabee	2008 and 2016 presidential candidate, Former Governor of Arkansas[3]
	Bobby Jindal	2016 presidential candidate, Former Governor of Louisiana[3]
	Rick Scott	Governor of Florida[3]

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Image	Name	Description
	Rob Astorino	Westchester County Executive[15]
	Pam Patenaude	President of the J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America's Families, former director of housing policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, HUD assistant secretary for Community, Planning and Development during George W. Bush Administration[16]
	Scott Brown	Former United States Senator from Massachusetts[17]

Secretary of Transportation

Image	Name	Description
	John Mica	U.S. Representative from Florida's 7th congressional district, defeated in reelection bid in 2016. Former chair of the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.[18]
	Chris Christie	Governor of New Jersey.[19]

Secretary of Energy

Image	Name	Description
	James L. Connaughton	Chief executive of Nautilus Data Technologies and former environmental adviser to President George W. Bush[20]
	Robert E. Grady	Venture capitalist[5]
	Harold Hamm	Billionaire Continental Resources CEO.[4][21]

Secretary of Education

Image	Name	Description
	Ben Carson	Author, retired director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, and former candidate for president against Trump in the Republican primaries.[14][4]
	Williamson Evers	Hoover Institution fellow and senior adviser to Bush Administration’s Secretary of Education[5]

Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Image	Name	Description
	Jeff Miller	Chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, U.S. Representative from Florida's 1st congressional district[22]

Secretary of Homeland Security

Image	Name	Description
	Joe Arpaio	Departing sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona.[20]
	David A. Clarke Jr.	Sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.[4][12]
	Michael McCaul	Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, U.S. Representative from Texas's 10th congressional district[5]
	Jeff Sessions	U.S. Senator from Alabama.[5]

Possible candidates for Cabinet-level officials

Cabinet-level officials have positions that are considered to be of Cabinet level, but which are not part of the Cabinet. The media have commented on the difficulty of making "lists of potential cabinet members [because]... Mr. Trump has a smaller policy brain trust than a new president normally carries" when beginning his presidency.^[23]

Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Image	Name	Description
	Jeff Sessions	U.S. Senator from Alabama.[5]
	Scott Walker	Governor of Wisconsin.[24]

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

Image	Name	Description
	Myron Ebell	Chair of the Cooler Heads Coalition and director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.[25][26]
	Robert E. Grady	Venture capitalist[20]
	Jeffrey Holmstead	Lawyer with Bracewell LLP and former deputy EPA administrator in the George W. Bush administration[20]

United States Trade Representative

Image	Name	Description
	Dan DiMicco	Former Nucor CEO and Trump trade adviser.[5]

Ambassador to the United Nations

Image	Name	Description
	John Bolton	Former George W. Bush recess appointee as United States Ambassador to the United Nations whose Senate confirmation was blocked in 2006 by Republican Lincoln Chafee.[27]
	Kelly Ayotte	Member of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services from New Hampshire, lost reelection in 2016.[20]

Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers

Image	Name	Description
	Dan DiMicco	Former Nucor CEO and Trump trade adviser.[5]

Administrator of the Small Business Administration

Image	Name	Description
	Willie Wilson	2015 Chicago mayoral candidate, Businessman.[27]

See also

• Donald Trump portal
• Politics portal
• United States portal

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