Portal:Cabinet/Section 20

Current Cabinet and Cabinet-rank officials

The individuals listed below were nominated by President Joe Biden to form his Cabinet and were confirmed by the United States Senate on the date noted or are serving as acting department heads by his request, pending the confirmation of his nominees.

Vice president and the heads of the executive departments

The Cabinet permanently includes the vice president and the heads of 15 executive departments, listed here according to their order of succession to the presidency. The speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate follow the vice president and precede the secretary of state in the order of succession, but both are in the legislative branch and are not part of the Cabinet.

Cabinet
	Office (Constituting instrument)
Agency	Vice President	(Constitution, Article II, Section I)
Department of State	Secretary of State	(22 U.S.C. § 2651a)}}
Department of the Treasury	Secretary of the Treasury	(31 U.S.C. § 301)}}
Department of Defense	Secretary of Defense	(10 U.S.C. § 113)}}
Department of Justice	Attorney General	(28 U.S.C. § 503)}}
Department of the Interior	Secretary of the Interior	(43 U.S.C. § 1451)}}
Department of Agriculture	Secretary of Agriculture	(7 U.S.C. § 2202)}}
Department of Commerce	Secretary of Commerce	(15 U.S.C. § 1501)}}
Department of Labor	Secretary of Labor	(29 U.S.C. § 551)}}
Department of Health and Human Services	Secretary of Health and Human Services	(Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953, 67 Stat. 631 and 42 U.S.C. § 3501)
Department of Housing and Urban Development	Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	(42 U.S.C. § 3532)}}
Department of Transportation	Secretary of Transportation	(49 U.S.C. § 102)}}
Department of Energy	Secretary of Energy	(42 U.S.C. § 7131)}}
Department of Education	Secretary of Education	(20 U.S.C. § 3411)}}
Department of Veterans Affairs	Secretary of Veterans Affairs	(38 U.S.C. § 303)}}
Department of Homeland Security	Secretary of Homeland Security	(6 U.S.C. § 112)}}

Cabinet-level officials

The president may designate additional positions to be members of the Cabinet, which can vary under each president. They are not in the line of succession and are not necessarily officers of the United States.^[1]

Cabinet-level officials
Office	Incumbent	Term began
File:Environmental Protection Agency logo.svg Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency(5 U.S.C. § 906, Executive Order 11735)	File:Michael S. Regan official photo.jpg Michael S. Regan	March 11, 2021
File:US-OfficeOfManagementAndBudget-Seal.svg Director of the Office of Management and Budget(31 U.S.C. § 502, Executive Order 11541, Executive Order 11609, Executive Order 11717)	File:Shalanda Young, OMB Deputy Director.jpg Shalanda Young	March 24, 2021
File:Seal of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.svg Director of National Intelligence(50 U.S.C. § 3023)	File:Avril-Haines.jpg Avril Haines	January 21, 2021
File:Seal of the Central Intelligence Agency.svg Director of the Central Intelligence Agency(50 U.S.C. § 3036)	File:CIA Director Burns.jpg William J. Burns	March 19, 2021
File:US-TradeRepresentative-Seal.svg Trade Representative(19 U.S.C. § 2171)	File:Katherine Tai, official portrait.jpg Katherine Tai	March 18, 2021
File:U.S. Department of State official seal.svg Ambassador to the United Nations(22 U.S.C. § 287)	File:Linda-Thomas-Greenfield-v1-8x10-1.jpg Linda Thomas-Greenfield	February 25, 2021
File:Council of Economic Advisers.png Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers(15 U.S.C. § 1023)	File:Jared Bernstein, CEA Member.jpg Jared Bernstein	July 10, 2023
File:US-SmallBusinessAdmin-Seal.svg Administrator of the Small Business Administration(15 U.S.C. § 633)	File:Isabella Casillas Guzman, SBA Administrator.png Isabel Guzman	March 17, 2021
File:US-OfficeOfScienceAndTechnologyPolicy-Seal.svg Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy(42 U.S.C. § 6612)	File:Dr. Arati Prabhakar by Sun L. Vega, 2015.jpg Arati Prabhakar	October 3, 2022
File:Seal of the Executive Office of the President of the United States 2014.svg 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)	File:Jeff Zients, WHCOS.jpg Jeff Zients	February 7, 2023

↑ The White House. "The Cabinet". https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/cabinet/.

[WH-1] The White House. "The Cabinet". https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/cabinet/.

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