Cabinet

The president’s cabinet includes the heads of 15 executive departments as well as other cabinet-level officials. There are 26 possible cabinet members, and outside the vice president, who is a member by statute, only the chief of staff does not require Senate confirmation.  
 
This page includes the bios of all listed cabinet members except for the vice president and chief of staff, Susie Wiles. In addition, three positions have had cabinet-level rank but are not necessarily part of this president’s cabinet: Michael Kratsios, Director of the Office of Science & Technology (OSTP); Stephen Miran, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors; and Michael Waltz, Ambassador of the United States to the United Nations (nominated). 

Brooke Rollins | Secretary of Agriculture

Rollins served as the founding CEO of the America First Policy Institute and as policy director in the first Trump White House. She got her political start in a similar role under Texas Governor Rick Perry. As Agriculture secretary, she is cutting back on regulations and working closely with RFK Jr. on food supply. 

Chris Wright | Secretary of Energy

Wright is an energy entrepreneur and executive who brings that experience to his new role. He founded a fracking company and sat on the board of a nuclear reactor enterprise. As Energy secretary, he is removing climate-related restrictions wherever possible. 

Doug Burgum | Secretary of the Interior

Burgum, a two-time governor of North Dakota, was a potential running mate for Donald Trump in 2024. Before becoming governor, he founded and led a venture capital firm, Arthur Ventures. As Interior secretary, he is working closely with the energy secretary to unlock oil and gas exploration. 

Doug Collins | Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Collins is a former Georgia congressman and Air Force veteran who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2020. He subsequently served as Trump’s legal counsel. As VA secretary, he is aligning with the administration’s agenda to create more efficiency in the department. 

Howard Lutnick | Secretary of Commerce

Lutnick was co-chair of Trump’s transition team in 2024, and his relationship with the president goes back decades. He heads the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald and was CEO when it lost 658 of its employees in the 9/11 attacks. As Commerce secretary, he approves of and will help carry out the White House’s tariff policies. 

Jamieson Greer | U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

Greer was chief of staff to the previous USTR in the first Trump administration. Before and after, he served as a private lawyer. As USTR, he is responsible for closing the $1 trillion trade deficit. 

John Ratcliffe | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Ratcliffe was a political appointee of the George W. Bush administration. He also co-led a law firm with Bush-era Attorney General John Ashcroft. Ratcliffe worked as a member of Congress to defend then-President Trump against impeachment and later became acting director of national intelligence. As CIA director, he is attempting to bring reform to the agency. 

Kelly Loeffler | Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA)

Loeffler, a corporate executive, was appointed to the Georgia Senate in 2020 and ran against the Trump-preferred candidate, Doug Collins, that same year. After her election loss, she returned to private business and became a fundraiser for Trump’s 2024 campaign. As SBA administrator, she is focusing on domestic manufacturing. 

Kristi Neom | Secretary of Homeland Security

Neom was the governor of South Dakota from 2019 until she joined the Cabinet. Before that, she was a state representative and congresswoman. A series of personal controversies undermined her prospects as a potential running mate for Trump. As Homeland Security secretary, she is working closely with the border czar to enforce a strict anti-migration policy. 

Lee Zeldin | Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Zeldin was a four-term congressman who led the red wave in New York in the 2022 midterm elections. Before entering government, he was a private lawyer who ran unsuccessfully for New York governor in 2022. As EPA administrator, he is narrowing the agency’s focus from climate change to air and water quality. 

Linda McMahon | Secretary of Education

McMahon served in the first administration, heading the SBA, and was a co-chair of the 2024 transition team with Howard Lutnick. Over three decades, she built World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) with her then-husband, Vince McMahon. As Education secretary, she is helping the administration effectively hollow out the department. 

Lori Chavez-DeRemer | Secretary of Labor

Chavez-DeRemer most recently served in the House after a tenure as mayor of a small town in Oregon. As a congresswoman, she took pro-union positions. As Labor secretary, she is a bridge to a new plank of the Republican base — workers. 

Marco Rubio | Secretary of State

Rubio also serves as the acting administrator of USAID and National Security Advisor. He was considered a front-runner in the 2016 presidential race, fading ultimately due to the rise of Trump. As secretary of state, he is promoting the peace-through-strength formula as America’s lead diplomat while also navigating the off-the-cuff deal-making positions set forth by the president. 

Pam Bondi | Attorney General

Bondi was an early backer of Donald Trump and worked as a lawyer to defend him in the first impeachment process in 2019. Bondi began her career as a prosecutor before becoming Florida’s attorney general. She, alongside her deputy, Todd Blanche, is working to overhaul the Department of Justice to remove what the administration sees as politicization. 

Pete Hegseth | Secretary of Defense

Hegseth was one of President Trump’s unorthodox appointments. He most recently served as a television co-host on Fox News. He is a veterans’ advocate, leading past initiatives for that purpose. Having served in Iraq and Afghanistan, he brings a unique perspective. As defense secretary, he is working to streamline the Pentagon and focus on “warfighting.” 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Secretary of Health and HUMAN Services (HHS)

RFK Jr is a core partner who moved Trump’s re-election past the line. He brings the MAHA movement to Trump’s side. RFK Jr. has a history of environmental and health advocacy, founding organizations with that purpose. His positions have been closely scrutinized, particularly on vaccine hesitancy. As HHS secretary, he is focused on preventative care and removing corporate influence. 

Russell Vought | Director of the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB)

Vought was the OMB director during the first Trump administration. After 2020, he worked in Washington, DC, with policy organizations, including Heritage Action, and on the Hill. As OMB director, he is aggressively monitoring all government spending. 

Scott Bessent | Secretary of the Treasury

Bessent is the highest-ranking gay official in U.S. history. While a past fundraiser for Trump, he also had a deep association with George Soros, heading his investment fund. He most recently led a hedge fund he co-founded. As Treasury secretary, he is concentrating, in his words, on lowering treasury yields to reduce the cost of borrowing. 

Scott Turner | Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Turner was a former NFL player turned Texas state representative. He joined the first Trump White House to oversee the Opportunity Zones initiative. He also has varied business interests. As HUD secretary, he is concentrating on lowering the cost of housing and increasing supply. 

Sean Duffy | Secretary of Transportation

Duffy rose to prominence as a reality TV star in the 1990s and later pursued a legal career, becoming a district attorney in Wisconsin. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives but resigned to become a lobbyist. As Transportation secretary he is enforcing standards across the board and modernizing the government’s transportation management.

Tulsi Gabbard | Director of National Intelligence
(DNI)

Gabbard ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. She eventually became a Republican in 2024 and endorsed Donald Trump. Prior to that, she was a four-term congresswoman. While formerly close to Bernie Sanders, that relationship splintered. She is a lieutenant colonel in the Hawaii National Guard. As DNI, she is working to reform across agencies. 

Chris Wright | Secretary of Energy

Wright is an energy entrepreneur and executive who will bring that experience to his new role. He founded a fracking company and sat on the board of a nuclear reactor enterprise. As Energy secretary, he is removing climate-related restrictions wherever possible

Doug Burgum | Secretary of Interior

Burgum, a two-time governor of North Dakota, was a potential running mate for Donald Trump in 2024. Before becoming governor, he founded and led a venture capital firm, Arthur Ventures. As Interior secretary, he is working closely with the energy secretary to unlock oil and gas exploration.

Doug Collins | Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Collins is a former Georgia congressman and Air Force veteran who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2020. He subsequently served as Trump’s legal counsel. As VA secretary, he is aligning with the administration’s agenda to create more efficiency in the department.

Elise Stefanik | Ambassador to the United Nations (UN)

Stefanik became the fourth-highest-ranking Republican member of the House of Representatives and the youngest woman elected to Congress at 30. In her role at the UN, she is focusing on the Middle East, Russia, and China and may renegotiate the U.S. role with the organization.

Howard Lutnick | Secretary of Commerce

Lutnick was co-chair of Trump’s transition team in 2024, and his relationship with the president goes back decades. He heads the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald and was CEO when it lost 658 of its employees in the 9/11 attacks. As Commerce secretary, he approves of and will help carry out the White House’s tariff policies.

Jamieson Greer | U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

Greer was chief of staff to the previous USTR in the first Trump administration. Before and after, he served as a private lawyer. As USTR, he is responsible for closing the $1 trillion trade deficit.

John Ratcliffe | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Ratcliffe was a political appointee of the George W. Bush administration. He also co-led a law firm with Bush-era Attorney General John Ashcroft. Ratcliffe worked as a member of Congress to defend then-President Trump against impeachment and later became acting director of national intelligence. As CIA director, he is expected to bring reform to the agency.

Brooke Rollins | Secretary of Agriculture

Rollins has an expansive reach within the Trump administration after serving as the founding CEO of the America First Policy Institute. She worked as policy director in the first Trump White House and got her political start in a similar role in Texas Governor Rick Perry’s office. As Agriculture secretary, she is cutting back on regulations but may sometimes diverge from the MAHA agenda on food supply. For now, she is working closely with RFK Jr.

Kelly Loeffler | Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA)

Loeffler, a corporate executive, was appointed to the Georgia Senate in 2020 and ran against the Trump-preferred candidate, Doug Collins, that same year. After her election loss, she returned to private business and became a fundraiser for Trump’s 2024 campaign. As SBA administrator, she is focusing on domestic manufacturing.

Kristi Neom | Secretary of Homeland Security

Neom was the governor of South Dakota from 2019 until she joined the Cabinet in 2025. Before that, she was a state representative and then a congresswoman. A series of personal controversies undermined her prospects as a potential running mate for Trump. As Homeland Security secretary, she is working closely with the border czar to enforce a strict anti-migration policy

Lee Zeldin | Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Zeldin was a four-term congressman who led the red wave in New York in the 2022 midterm elections to much Republican fanfare. Before entering government, he was a private lawyer who ran unsuccessfully for the New York governor position in 2022. As EPA administrator, he is narrowing the agency’s focus from climate change to air and water quality.

Linda McMahon | Secretary of Education

McMahon served in the first administration, heading the SBA, and was a co-chair of the 2024 transition team with Howard Lutnick. She built World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) with her then-husband, Vince McMahon, over three decades. As Education secretary, she is helping the administration effectively hollow out the department.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer | Secretary of Labor

Chavez-DeRemer most recently served in the House after a tenure as mayor of a small town in Oregon. As a congresswoman, she took pro-union positions. As Labor secretary, she is a bridge to a new plank of the Republican base — workers.

Marco Rubio | Secretary of State

Rubio serves as the acting administrator of USAID in addition to his regular duties as head of the State Department. He served first in the Florida House before running for and winning one of Florida’s two Senate seats in 2010. He was considered a front-runner in the 2016 presidential race, fading ultimately due to the rise of Trump. As secretary of state, he is promoting the peace-through-strength formula as America’s lead diplomat while also navigating the off-the-cuff deal-making positions set forth by the president.

Michael Kratsios | Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

Kratsios served as the chief technology officer of the first Trump White House. Early in his career, he was Peter Thiel’s chief of staff. He was most recently part of the executive leadership team at Scale AI, an AI company. As OSTP director, he is expected to work closely with David Sacks to ensure American dominance in AI.

Pam Bondi | Attorney General

Bondi was an early backer of Donald Trump and worked as a lawyer to defend him in the first impeachment process in 2019. Bondi began her career as a prosecutor before becoming Florida’s attorney general. She has also operated a private practice. She, alongside her deputy, Todd Blanche, will work to overhaul the Department of Justice to remove what the administration sees as politicization.

Pete Hegseth | Secretary of Defense

Hegseth was one of President Trump’s unorthodox appointments. He most recently served as a television co-host on Fox News. He is a veterans advocate, leading initiatives People and Positions 115 and organizations for that purpose. Having served in Iraq and Afghanistan, he brings a unique perspective to the position. As defense secretary, he is working with DOGE to streamline the Pentagon and focus on “warfighting.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Secretary of Health and HUMAN Services (HHS)

RFK Jr is a central coalition partner who moved Trump’s re-election past the line. He also brings the MAHA movement that includes former democrats to Trump’s side. RFK Jr. has a history of environmental and health advocacy, founding organizations with that purpose. He has initiated lawsuits — as a lawyer himself — and written a number of books that outline his views. His positions have been closely scrutinized — and condemned; particularly on vaccine hesitancy. As HHS secretary, he is moving the agency from reactive to preventative health care and will attempt to remove corporate influence in aspects of the department.

Russell Vought | Director of the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB)

Vought was the OMB director during the first Trump administration. After 2020, he worked in Washington, DC, with policy organizations, including Heritage Action and on the Hill. As OMB director, he is taking an aggressive posture in monitoring all government spending.

Scott Bessent | Secretary of the Treasury

Bessent is the highest-ranking gay official in U.S. history. While a past fundraiser for Trump, he also had a deep association with George Soros, heading his investment fund. He was involved in one of the most famous trades of all time, shorting the British pound. He most recently led a hedge fund he co-founded. As Treasury secretary, he is concentrating, in his words, on lowering treasury yields to reduce the cost of borrowing.

Scott Turner | Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Turner was a former NFL player turned Texas state representative. He joined the first Trump White House to oversee the opportunity zones initiative. He also has varied business interests. As HUD secretary, he is concentrating on lowering the cost of housing and increasing supply.

Sean Duffy | Secretary of Transportation

Duffy rose to prominence as a reality TV star in the 1990s and later pursued a legal career, becoming a district attorney in Wisconsin. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives but resigned to become a lobbyist. As Transportation secretary, he faced his first challenge with a dramatic airline crash in Washington, DC. He is enforcing standards across the board and modernizing the government’s transportation management.

Stephen Miran | Chairman of the Council of Economic
Advisors

Miran was a financial analyst and economist before briefly joining the Treasury Department at the tail end of the first Trump administration. He has written extensively criticizing the Federal Reserve for alleged inflationary policies. As the Council chairman, he will work closely with others in the White House to monitor inflation and guide thinking concerning tariffs.

Tulsi Gabbard | Director of National Intelligence
(DNI)

Gabbard ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 but then left the party. She eventually became a Republican in 2024 and endorsed Donald Trump. Prior to that, she was a four-term congresswoman. Due to her anti-war bent and skepticism of what she terms the ‘deep state,’ she has a loyal base
within MAGA circles. While formerly close to Bernie Sanders, that relationship splintered. She is a lieutenant colonel in the Hawaii National Guard.