Includes all cabinet-level and department-level positions, including ones created within his first 365 days. To resolve yes, a person must SERVE as a cabinet position - a nomination is insufficient to resolve an answer to YES. Acting secretaries count.
The positions that would resolve to YES are as follows:
The heads of the executive departments
Vice President (please don't submit this one)
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Attorney General
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Seecretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Secretary of Transportation
Secretary of Energy
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Secretary of Homeland Security
Cabinet-level officials
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Director of National Intelligence
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Trade Representative
Ambassador to the United Nations
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)
Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA)
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
White House Chief of Staff
As well as
Any other cabinet position created through an act of Congress
Any other position that the President appoints the status of Cabinet-rank
Note: The President is allowed to designate a position to be a member of the cabinet. In the unlikely scenario where a position is removed from being cabinet-rank before it is filled, it'll resolve NO.
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3.00@Marnix Forgive me if this has been specified elsewhere, but US Ambassador to the United Nations counts as being in the Cabinet?
@Kraalnaxx Yep! I'm just gonna go ahead and write up all the ones that count and put those in the description, I think lmao
@shankypanky what exactly is a department-level position and does national security advisor count?
@Fay42 Department-level ones are just the obvious ones — DOT, DOJ, HHS, HUD, etc.
Cabinet-level are the other ones - EPA admin, Director of National Intelligence, Chief of Staff, etc.
National Security Advisor does not currently count. it did for a time (Jimmy Carter made it cabinet level, I believe), but hasn't since 1981. It could be elevated again if Trump wants, but he hasn't given any indication he would.
I've been working off of this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States
@Kraalnaxx Not particularly - at this point, there's still shortlists, and once someone's announced there's still the (admittedly slim) chance that whatever person gets picked doesn't ever get to serve, either because the Senate refuses to confirm them or they suddenly die or something.
Vivek has made the shortlist for Secretary of State, according to The American Conservative. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/vivek-ramaswamy-dark-horse-secretary-of-state-candidate/
Trump has named Stephen Miller will serve as his Deputy Chief of Policy — a role in that is NOT a cabinet position. https://apnews.com/live/house-senate-trump-election-updates-11-11-24#00000193-1c05-d712-abdb-dd8d5e630000
We're already getting a few picks - Susie Wilds as Chief of Staff, and according to FT he's likely to give Linda McMahon secretary of commerce. Jared Kushner also stated that won't take an admin position.
Title and description have also been changed slightly, to reflect the fact that Trump has been elected, and that answers will not resolve yes until the person actually serves!
@Marnix We hope for a Mars-sized planetoid to collide with the Earth, ending all life swiftly and painlessly. The most humane outcome.
@PlasmaBallin But do you think the planetoid will be in the cabinet proper or just a senior advisor role
Tulsi is now a registered Republican. Will Trump put her in his cabinet?
Added a few names - Jeffrey Clark was the acting chief of the Civil Division of the DOJ at the end of Trump's term. In Dec. 2020, after the election, Trump considered replacing then-Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Clark because Clark was much more receptive to conspiracy theories about election meddling than Rosen. Trump could go with him from the start this time, putting in a guy he thinks will be more receptive to him.
Scott Perry was allegedly the man who introduced Jeffrey Clark to Trump. Perry is a staunch Trump ally, who played a major role in attempts to overturn Pennsylvania's election results in 2020, and managed to keep his seat despite it ostensibly being a swing district.
Mark Meadows was Trump's Chief of Staff from March 2020 until the end of Trump's term. Though a staunch Trump ally, Meadows allegedly ended up testifying before a federal grand jury that he had told trump there was no election fraud in 2020. Trump might bring him back (he's been very loyal for a good while), but was he loyal enough?
I guess this doesn't count as a cabinet position? Trump says he'd create government efficiency commission led by Elon Musk | AP News
@TimothyJohnson5c16 No, i think that wouldn't count (unless it ended up being a cabinet position somehow).