Cabinet of Donald Trump

The cabinet of Donald Trump will replace Barack Obama's cabinet in 2017, as part of the transition of power following the United States presidential election, 2016.

Overview

All members of the cabinet require the advice and consent of the United States Senate following appointment by the president prior to taking office. The vice presidency is exceptional in that the position requires election to office pursuant to the United States Constitution. Although some are afforded cabinet-level rank, non-cabinet members within the Executive Office of the President, such as White House Chief of Staff, National Security Advisor, and White House Press Secretary, do not hold constitutionally created positions and most do not require Senate confirmation for appointment.

The following have been named as Cabinet appointees by the President-elect. Other high-level positions are listed at List of Donald Trump political appointments.

Cabinet of President-elect Donald J. Trump
Office Date announced	Designee	Office Date announced	Designee
— Vice President Elected November 8, 2016	Governor Mike Pence of Indiana	— Secretary of State
— Secretary of the Treasury November 30	Steven Mnuchin of California	— Secretary of Defense December 1	General (USMC) James Mattis of Washington
— Attorney General November 18	Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama	— Secretary of the Interior
— Secretary of Agriculture		— Secretary of Commerce November 30	Wilbur Ross of New Jersey
— Secretary of Labor		— Secretary of Health and Human Services November 29	Representative Tom Price of Georgia
— Secretary of Housing and Urban Development		— Secretary of Transportation November 29	Secretary Elaine Chao of Kentucky
— Secretary of Energy		— Secretary of Education November 23	Betsy DeVos of Michigan
— Secretary of Veterans Affairs		— Secretary of Homeland Security
— White House Chief of Staff November 13	RNC Chairman Reince Priebus of Wisconsin	— Ambassador to the United Nations November 23	Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina
— Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency		— United States Trade Representative
— Director of the Office of Management and Budget		— Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
— Administrator of the Small Business Administration
Source: NPR[1]

History

Choosing members of the presidential Cabinet (and other high-level positions) is a complicated process, which begins prior to the November 2016 general election results being known. In the case of the Trump'16 campaign, his former rival for the Republican nomination Chris Christie was appointed to lead the transition team in May 2016, shortly after Ted Cruz and John Kasich suspended their campaigns (thus making Trump the presumptive nominee of the party). In addition to various other responsibilities, the transition team is responsible for making preliminary lists of potential executive branch appointees—at least for the several dozen high-level positions if not for the several thousand lower-level positions—and doing some early vetting work on those people. The transition team also hires policy experts (over 100 in the case of the Trump transition team by October 2016), using primarily federal funds and federal office space, to help plan how the hypothetical-at-the-time future Trump administration will implement their policy-goals via the various federal agencies and departments.

After the election in November 2016, when the Trump/Pence ticket defeated the Clinton/Kaine ticket as well as various third party opponents, the transition team was quickly reshuffled and expanded; Mike Pence was given the lead role (over Chris Christie), and several additional top-level transition personnel were added to the transition effort, most of them from the now-finished campaign effort. During the remainder of 2016, the team continued finding and vetting potential nominees for the various positions, as the Electoral College process was ongoing (including recounts in some states where the winning margin was relatively tiny) and prior to the presidential inauguration in January 2017.

President-elect Trump announced his first post-election Cabinet nominee, Jeff Sessions for the role of United States Attorney General, on November 18, 2016. (Trump had earlier announced Mike Pence as his pick for vice-presidential running mate in July 2016, which was shortly thereafter confirmed by the delegates to the Republican National Convention when they officially nominated first Trump and then Pence.) Although most positions were simultaneously under consideration by the transition team, the official announcement of offers, and the public acceptance of the offers, usually happens gradually as slots are filled (Richard Nixon being the exception).

President[2]	Week#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	Week#10	Notes
Nixon '68						12					The twelfth Cabinet role was quasi-privatized in 1971.
Carter '76					1	2	7	2			New roles: Energy in 1977, Education in 1979.
Reagan '80						8	4			1	Reagan was unable to abolish the federal Department of Education.
Bush '88	2	2			1	3	5			1	New role: VA in 1989. The four earliest nominees were continuations of the Reagan Cabinet.
Clinton '92						4	6	4
Bush '00						1	5	8			New role: DHS in 2003. Announcements of appointees were delayed by the Florida recount.
Obama '08			1	4	2	4	4				Slightly differing figures are given in some sources.[2][3][4]
Trump '16	1	1	5	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	There are officially fifteen Cabinet positions to nominate; Senate confirmation of nominees usually follows the inauguration.

Announced positions

The following people were considered (or received media speculation as being considered) as potential nominees to Cabinet-level roles in the Trump administration, prior to the selection of a final nominee for the role in question.

Vice President

There were dozens of potential running mates for Trump who received media speculation (including several from New York where Trump himself resides). Trump's eventual pick of Governor Mike Pence from Indiana was officially announced on July 16, 2016 and confirmed by acclamation via parliamentary procedure amongst delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention on July 19, 2016.

White House Chief of Staff

Trump's selection of former RNC chair Reince Priebus from Wisconsin was officially announced on November 13, 2016. This role does not require Senate confirmation. The appointment of Stephen Bannon as Chief Strategist was announced simultaneously. Although that strategy-role is not a Cabinet-level position in the statutory sense, in an "unusual arrangement"^[5] Priebus and Bannon were envisioned by the Trump transition team as being equal partners, and were announced simultaneously.^[6][7] See also, team of rivals.^[8][9] With Priebus accepting a role within the administration, the person who replaces Priebus in his former role as RNC chair will be decided in January.

Image	Name	Description
	Steve Bannon	CEO of the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump.[10] (Although he was a contender for the role of Chief of Staff, instead Bannon was appointed as White House Chief Strategist on November 13, 2016.)
	Newt Gingrich	Former Speaker of the House from Georgia. (Gingrich has said he does not plan to accept a Cabinet position within the Trump administration, but prefers to be involved with long-term planning efforts.)
	Reince Priebus	Chair of the Republican National Committee.[11][12]

Attorney General

Trump's selection of Senator Jeff Sessions from Alabama was officially announced on November 18, 2016.

Image	Name	Description
	Pam Bondi	Attorney General of Florida[13]
	Chris Christie	Governor of New Jersey, former United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey[14]
	Ted Cruz	U.S. Senator from Texas and 2016 presidential candidate[15]
	Trey Gowdy	Chair of the House Benghazi Committee, U.S. Representative from South Carolina's 4th congressional district[13]
	Rudy Giuliani	Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, former Associate Attorney General, former Mayor of New York City[11][12][16]
	Kris Kobach	Secretary of State of Kansas[17]
	Henry McMaster	Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina[18]
	Jeff Sessions	U.S. Senator from Alabama; Member of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services from Alabama; Former Attorney of the Southern District of Alabama[14]

Ambassador to the United Nations

Trump officially announced Governor Nikki Haley from South Carolina as his selection for this role on November 23, 2016. Haley supported Marco Rubio in the Republican primaries and caucuses, but later endorsed Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee.^[19] Henry McMaster, who was an early supporter of Trump,^[20] is also under consideration for a role in the Trump administration, but should he does not accept such a role, will become the sitting Governor due to his current position of Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina.^[21] Like most ambassadorships and all official Cabinet positions, this role requires confirmation by the Senate. The nomination of an Ambassador-designate to the United Nations is reviewed during hearings held by the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and then presented to the full Senate for a vote (plus possibly a filibuster).

Image	Name	Description
	Kelly Ayotte	Outgoing U.S. Senator from New Hampshire[22]
	Richard Grenell	Former spokesman for the United States Ambassador to the United Nations[22]
	Nikki Haley	Governor of South Carolina

Secretary of Education

Trump's selection of former RNC member Betsy DeVos from Michigan was officially announced on November 23, 2016.

Image	Name	Description
	Tony Bennett	Former Florida Education Commissioner; former Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction[13]
	Kevin Chavous	Member of the Council of the District of Columbia from Ward 7[13]
	Ben Carson	former professor at Johns Hopkins University, retired neurosurgeon, presidential candidate in 2016 (endorsed Trump shortly after suspending his own campaign)[23]
	Mitch Daniels	President of the Purdue University System; former Governor of Indiana; former Director of the Office of Management and Budget[13]
	Betsy DeVos	Former Chair of the Michigan Republican Party[13]
	Bill Evers	Resident Scholar at the Hoover Institution; Senior Advisor to the United States Secretary of Education[14]
	Luke Messer	U.S. Representatives from Indiana's 6th congressional district[13]
	Michelle Rhee	Former Chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools[13]
	Gerald Robinson	Former Virginia Education Secretary[13]
	Scott Walker	Governor of Wisconsin; 2016 presidential candidate[13]

Secretary of Commerce

Trump's selection of CEO Wilbur Ross from Florida (formerly of New York) was officially announced on November 30, 2016. Several days earlier starting November 24, unofficial staff interviews said that Ross either would be,^{[24][25][26][27]} or was expected to be,^{[28][29][30][31][32]} offered the role.

Image	Name	Description
	Chris Christie	Governor of New Jersey; 2016 presidential candidate[33]
	Dan DiMicco	Former CEO of Nucor; advisor on trade to Donald Trump[33]
	Lewis M. Eisenberg	Finance Chairman of the Republican National Committee.[34]
	Mike Huckabee	Former Governor of Arkansas and 2016 presidential candidate.[34]
	Linda McMahon	Professional wrestling magnate; twice former Republican U.S. Senate nominee for Connecticut[35]
	Rick Perry	Former Governor of Texas, 2016 presidential candidate[33]
	Wilbur Ross	Investor[36] at Invesco, billionaire specializing in bankruptcy-turnarounds, co-leader of the economic policy advisor team to Trump'16,[37] previously backed fellow Floridian Rubio'16,[38][39] privatization advisor to then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, board member of USAID-funded TUSRIF appointed by the Bill Clinton administration,[40] and former Democrat[41] whose then-spouse was the Republican-party Lt. Governor of New York.
	Peter Thiel	Cofounder of PayPal[34]

Secretary of Health and Human Services

Trump's selection of Representative Tom Price from Georgia was officially announced on November 28, 2016.^[42][43][44]

Image	Name	Description
	Rich Bagger	Executive Vice President of Celgene; former transition executive director, former New Jersey State Senator[45]
	Ben Carson	retired neurosurgeon, former professor at Johns Hopkins University, presidential candidate in 2016 (endorsed Trump shortly after suspending his own campaign)[23]
	Mike Huckabee	Former Governor of Arkansas; former Chair of the National Governors Association; 2016 presidential candidate[22]
	Bobby Jindal	Former Governor of Louisiana; 2016 presidential candidate[22]
	Tom Price	Chair of the House Budget Committee, U.S. Representative for Georgia's 6th congressional district, orthopedic surgeon.[46]
	Rick Scott	Governor of Florida[22]

Secretary of Transportation

On November 29, 2016 it was reported that President-elect Trump selected former United States Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao of Kentucky as his Secretary of Transportation.^[47][48]

Image	Name	Description
	Lou Barletta	U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district[49]
	Elaine Chao	Former Labor Secretary under President George W. Bush, and Deputy Secretary of Transportation under President George H. W. Bush, wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell[50][51]
	John Mica	Former Chair of the House Transportation Committee, Outgoing U.S. Representative from Florida's 7th congressional district[52]
	Harold Ford Jr.	Democratic U.S. Representative from Tennessee's 9th congressional district[53]
	Mark Rosenker	Former Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board[13]
	Jim Simpson	Former New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation; Former Federal Transit Administrator[13]

Secretary of the Treasury

Trump announced the selection of Steve Mnuchin as Secretary of the Treasury on November 30, 2016.

Image	Name	Description
	Tom Barrack	Private equity real estate investor; founder, chair and CEO of Colony Capital[22]
	John A. Allison IV	Former president and CEO of the Cato Institute.[54][55]
	Gary Cohn	President and COO of Goldman Sachs[56]
	Ben Bernanke	Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve.[34]
	Jamie Dimon	CEO of JPMorgan Chase, billionaire, formerly on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, donor to and member of the Democratic party[57]
	Jeb Hensarling	Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, U.S. Representative from Texas's 5th congressional district; former Chair of the Republican Study Committee and Chair of the House Republican Conference[14]
	Carl Icahn	Chairman of Icahn Enterprises.[34]
	David H. McCormick	President of Bridgewater Associates; former Undersecretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury[58]
	Steven Mnuchin	CEO of Dune Capital Management and former partner at Goldman Sachs; movie producer at Relativity Media; Trump campaign finance chair[59][60]
	Tim Pawlenty	Former Governor of Minnesota,[22] CEO since 2012 of financial services industry lobbyist and advocacy group Financial Services Roundtable, 2012 presidential candidate (then later co-chair of Romney'12)
	Kevin Warsh	Former Federal Reserve governor[36]

Secretary of Defense

Trump informally announced the selection of General James Mattis as Secretary of Defense on December 1, 2016.^[61] (The formal announcement is still pending, as of December 2, 2016.) As with most cabinet roles, the Secretary-designate of Defense undergoes hearings before the appropriate subcommittee of the United States Senate, followed by a confirmation-vote. In the case of Mattis, there is an additional step needed, on top of Senate confirmation: because he retired from the military three years ago, section 903(a) of the NDAA will need to be altered (or a special waiver will need to be enacted), since that statute demands a minimum of seven years as a civilian for appointees.^[62] In addition to the Senate, therefore, the House will also be involved. All three bodies needed (House/Senate/Presidency) are expected to be under Republican control when the 2017 session begins, based on the results of the November 2016 elections, but for the legislative branch by slimmer margins than at the beginning of the 2015 session.

Image	Name	Description
	Kelly Ayotte	Outgoing U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. (Although mentioned as a potential nominee for this role, Trump said in an interview that he did not plan to offer Ayotte this position.)[63]
	Tom Cotton	U.S. Senator from Arkansas[13]
	Michael T. Flynn	Retired lieutenant general of the U.S. Army; former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.[64][65] (Federal law requires former military officers to be retired a minimum of 7 years before they can be put in charge of Pentagon as a civilian. A special act of the Republican-controlled Congress would have been required before Flynn could have been confirmed as defense secretary.[66] However, although considered for the role of Secretary of Defense, eventually Flynn instead became the nominee for National Security Advisor as of November 17, 2016, a role which does not require the advice and consent of the Senate and which is not subject to the seven year statute.)
	Tulsi Gabbard	Democratic U.S. Representative from Hawaii's 2nd congressional district[67]
	Stephen Hadley	Former U.S. National Security Advisor[11][68]
	Duncan D. Hunter	U.S. Representative for California's 50th congressional district[69]
	Jon Kyl	Former U.S. Senator from Arizona[14]
	James Mattis	Retired General of the Marine Corps; former commander of CENTCOM[70][71]
	Rick Perry	Former Governor of Texas, presidential candidate in 2012 and 2016[72]
	David Petraeus	Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency[73]
	Jeff Sessions	U.S. Senator from Alabama, former Attorney General of Alabama. (Although considered for Secretary of Defense role,[33] Sessions was instead nominated for Attorney General.)
	Jim Talent	Former U.S. Senator from Missouri who was on the Senate Armed Services Committee[74]
	Jim Webb	Former Democratic U.S. Senator from Virginia and United States Secretary of the Navy[75]
	Jim Woolsey	Former Director of Central Intelligence[13]

Possible candidates for open 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. The number of people which have received media attention as potential cabinet appointees is higher than in most previous presidential elections, partly because the Trump'16 campaign staff (and associated PACs) was significantly smaller and less expensive,^[76] thus there are not as many people already expected to receive specific roles in the upcoming Trump administration. In particular, "Trump ha[d] a smaller policy brain trust [policy group] than a new president normally carries"^[77] because as an anti-establishment candidate who began his campaign by largely self-funding his way to the Republican party nomination,^[78] unlike most previous presidential winners "Trump does not have the traditional cadre of Washington insiders and donors to build out his Cabinet."^[79] An additional factor that tends to make the field of potential nominees especially broad, is that unlike most presidential transition teams who select politicians as their appointees, the Trump transition team "has started with a mandate to hire from the private sector [as opposed to the governmental sector] whenever possible."^[79]

Until the Trump Administration announces their official cabinet, and those nominees are confirmed by the Senate (where applicable), this page will continue to be updated with new information and potential positions. The membership of the presidential cabinet also tends to evolve during the course of the presidency; turnover often causes individual names to change, and more rarely, creation of new departments and merging/downsizing of existing departments can alter the size of the cabinet. Names mentioned include:

Secretary of State

Image	Name	Description
	Richard Armitage	Former United States Deputy Secretary of State; endorsed Hillary Clinton[57]
	John Bolton	Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations; former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs[22]
	Bob Corker	U.S. Senator from Tennessee and Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee[11]
	Carly Fiorina	Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard; 2016 presidential candidate; briefly 2016 vice presidential candidate[80]
	Tulsi Gabbard	Democratic U.S. Representative from Hawaii's 2nd congressional district[67]
	Rex Tillerson	CEO of ExxonMobil[81]
	Newt Gingrich	Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and 2012 presidential candidate[63] (However, Gingrich stated he does not intend to accept a cabinet position)
	Rudy Giuliani	Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, former Associate Attorney General, former Mayor of New York City[82][83][84]
	Richard Haass	President of the Council on Foreign Relations[85]
	Jon Huntsman Jr.	Former Governor of Utah, former United States Ambassador to Singapore and United States Ambassador to China, and 2012 presidential candidate[86]
	John Kelly	Retired General of the United States Marine Corps, former Commander of the United States Southern Command[83][87]
	Zalmay Khalilzad	Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations[22]
	Jon Kyl	Former U.S. Senator from Arizona[80]
	Stanley McChrystal	Retired General of the United States Army, former Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan[22]
	Henry Paulson	Former United States Secretary of the Treasury and CEO of Goldman Sachs; endorsed Hillary Clinton[57]
	David Petraeus	Retired General of the United States Army, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Commander of United States Central Command, the Afghan International Security Assistance Force, and Iraq Multinational Force[84][88][89]
	Dana Rohrabacher	U.S. Representative for California's 48th congressional district; Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats[90]
	Mitt Romney	Former Governor of Massachusetts and 2012 Republican presidential nominee[83][84][91][92]
	Jim Webb	Former Democratic U.S. Senator and United States Secretary of the Navy[75]

Secretary of the Interior

Image	Name	Description
	Jan Brewer	Former Governor of Arizona[22]
	Mary Fallin	Governor of Oklahoma[13]
	Robert Grady	Venture capitalist and private equity investor [14]
	Heidi Heitkamp	U.S. Senator from North Dakota[93]
	Harold Hamm	Oil and natural gas businessman[14]
	Forrest Lucas	CEO and president of Lucas Oil[94]
	Cynthia Lummis	Outgoing U.S. Representative from Wyoming's at-large congressional district[13]
	Cathy McMorris Rodgers	Chair of the House Republican Conference, U.S. Representative from Washington's 5th congressional district[95]
	Sarah Palin	2008 vice presidential nominee; former Governor of Alaska[11][96][97][98]
	Richard Pombo	Former U.S. Representative from California's 11th congressional district, former Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee[13]
	Mead Treadwell	Former Lieutenant Governor of Alaska[13]
	Ray Washburne	Dallas-based investor and former vice chairman of the 2016 Trump Victory Committee[99]

Secretary of Agriculture

Image	Name	Description
	Sam Brownback	Governor of Kansas; former U.S. Senator and Congressman[14]
	Chuck Conner	Former Acting United States Secretary of Agriculture[14]
	Dave Heineman	Former Governor of Nebraska[13]
	Tim Huelskamp	Outgoing U.S. Representative from Kansas's 1st congressional district[45]
	Sid Miller	Texas Agriculture Commissioner[100]
	Jerry Moran	U.S. Senator from Kansas[101]
	Sonny Perdue	Former Governor of Georgia[14]
	Rick Perry	Former Governor of Texas, 2016 presidential candidate[23]

Secretary of Labor

Image	Name	Description
	Lou Barletta	U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district[102]
	John Kline	U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 2nd congressional district[95]
	Victoria Lipnic	Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards[11][12]
	Peter Kirsanow	Attorney and a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights[13]
	Andy Puzder	CEO of CKE Restaurants,[13] delegate to Republican National Convention platform committee in 2012 and 2016,[103][104][105] backed comprehensive immigration reform in 2013,[106] supports defederalization of minimum wage regulations because he believes increases in the minimum wage end up actually costing jobs through the unintended consequence of increasing automation.[107]

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Image	Name	Description
	Ben Carson	2016 presidential candidate and former director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital[108]
	Bob Woodson	Community development leader, Founder and President of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise[95]

Secretary of Energy

Image	Name	Description
	James Connaughton	Chief executive of Nautilus Data Technologies and former Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality[22]
	Myron Ebell	Chair of the Cooler Heads Coalition; director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and leading climate change denier[95]
	Joe Manchin	U.S. Senator from West Virginia and vice chair of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.[109]
	Heidi Heitkamp	U.S. Senator from North Dakota[93]
	Kevin Cramer	U.S. Representative from North Dakota's at-large congressional district[13]
	Robert Grady	Venture capitalist and private equity investor[14]
	Harold Hamm	Billionaire Continental Resources CEO[11][110]
	J. Larry Nichols	Chairman of Devon Energy Corporation[99]
	Rick Perry	Former Governor of Texas, 2016 presidential candidate[111]

Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Image	Name	Description
	Scott Brown	Former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts[112][113]
	Tulsi Gabbard	Democratic U.S. Representative from Hawaii's 2nd congressional district[114]
	Pete Hegseth	Former Executive Director of Vets for Freedom, Chief Executive Officer of Concerned Veterans for America, Fox News contributor[95]
	Jeff Miller	Chair of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, U.S. Representative from Florida's 1st congressional district[115]
	Sarah Palin	2008 vice presidential nominee; former Governor of Alaska[116][117]
	Rick Perry	Former Governor of Texas, 2016 presidential candidate[118]
	Mitt Romney	Former Governor of Massachusetts and 2012 Republican presidential nominee[119]

Secretary of Homeland Security

Image	Name	Description
	Joe Arpaio	Outgoing Sheriff of Maricopa County[22]
	David Clarke	Sheriff of Milwaukee County[74]
	Rudy Giuliani	former Mayor of New York City, 2008 presidential candidate, former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, former Associate Attorney General.[23]
	John Katko	U.S. Representative from New York's 24th congressional district[13]
	John F. Kelly	United States Marine Corps general and the former commander of United States Southern Command[120]
	Pete King	U.S. Representative from New York's 2nd congressional district; former Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee[121]
	Steve King	U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district[122]
	Kris Kobach	Secretary of State of Kansas; former chairman of the Kansas Republican Party[123]
	Mike McCaul	Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee; U.S. Representative from Texas's 10th congressional district[14]
	Rick Perry	Former Governor of Texas, 2016 presidential candidate[124]
	Frances Townsend	Former United States Homeland Security Advisor[92]

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. Which exact positions are considered part of the presidential cabinet, can vary with the president. The CIA and FEMA were cabinet-level agencies under Bill Clinton, but not George W. Bush. 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. Bush, but not under Barack Obama. (Not to be confused with the head of the DEA, who has remained in the org chart underneath the cabinet position held by the Attorney General.) Designation of an agency as being cabinet-level requires that Congress enact legislation, although executive orders unilaterally created by the president can be used to create many other types of position inside the executive branch. Members of the cabinet proper, as well as cabinet-level officials, meet with the president in a room adjacent to the Oval Office.

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

Image	Name	Description
	Myron Ebell	Chair of the Cooler Heads Coalition; director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and leading climate change denier[97][125]
	Robert Grady	Venture Capitalist and Private Equity Investor[22]
	Carol Comer	Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management[126]
	Jeff Holmstead	Lawyer for Bracewell LLP; Former Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency[22]
	Cynthia Lummis	Outgoing U.S. Representative from Wyoming's at-large congressional district[13]
	Scott Pruitt	Attorney General of Oklahoma[13]
	Leslie Rutledge	Attorney General of Arkansas[13]

United States Trade Representative

Image	Name	Description
	Charles Boustany	U.S. Representative from Louisiana, candidate (lost during the jungle primary) for U.S. Senator from Louisiana in 2016[127]
	Dan DiMicco	Former chief executive of steel producer Nucor Corp[126]

Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Image	Name	Description
	Tom Coburn	Former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma[13]
	Gary Cohn	President of Goldman Sachs[128]
	Mick Mulvaney	U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 5th congressional district[129]
	Jeb Hensarling	Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, U.S. Representative from Texas's 5th congressional district; former Chair of the Republican Study Committee and Chair of the House Republican Conference[14] Hensarling reportedly was offered the role, but turned it down.[130] Hensarling was also considered for the Treasury.
	David Malpass	President of Encima Global, former Chief Economist of Bear Stearns[95]
	Mick Mulvaney	U.S. Representative from South Carolina's 5th congressional district[95]
	Linda Springer	Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management[95]
	Scott Walker	Governor of Wisconsin; 2016 presidential candidate[131]

Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers

Image	Name	Description
	Dan DiMicco	Former Nucor Corporation CEO, Senior Trade Advisor to Donald Trump[14]
	Larry Kudlow	Former host of The Kudlow Report[95]
	Stephen Moore	Founding President of the Club for Growth, Chief Economist of the Heritage Foundation[95]
	Peter Navarro	Professor at the University of California, Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business, former Democratic candidate in San Diego[95]

Administrator of the Small Business Administration

Image	Name	Description
	Steve Chabot	Chair of the House Small Business Committee, U.S. Representative from Ohio's 1st congressional district[95]
	Linda McMahon	Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO, 2010 and 2012 Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Connecticut[132]

See also

• Presidential transition of Donald Trump
• Inauguration of Donald Trump

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