Here is Trump’s current Cabinet
President Donald Trump will convene his Cabinet Monday morning for the first time since July, the first such meeting since House Democrats announced an impeachment inquiry.
The Cabinet meeting comes as the President is testing patience within his own party following his decision to withdraw troops from Syria, though Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday that some US troops will temporarily stay in the country to protect oil fields from ISIS. Esper, who is currently traveling overseas, will not be present for the meeting Monday.
The meeting comes during a crucial week for the impeachment inquiry with the nation’s top diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, set to testify behind closed doors Tuesday, along with officials from the State Department and National Security Council scheduled to testify later this week.
There are also continued questions about the administration’s strategy as acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney faces fallout from his press conference last week, in which he said, then denied, that Trump held up an aid package to Ukraine in exchange for an investigation into an unsubstantiated theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for hacking Democratic Party emails in 2016. Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with Mulvaney, who already faced internal efforts to be ousted before the impeachment inquiry began, in the wake of his briefing room appearance.
Trump has faced unprecedented turnover in his administration and there are currently a few vacancies in his Cabinet. In addition to a full-time chief of staff, Trump has yet to nominate a Homeland Security Secretary, Energy Secretary or Director of National Intelligence.
Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan announced his resignation October 11, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced last week that he is stepping down. Trump briefly nominated John Ratcliffe to serve as DNI after Dan Coats resigned in July, but the nomination was pulled five days later. Trump nominated Jovita Carranza to head the Small Business Administration in April, replacing Linda McMahon, but she has not yet been confirmed.
There are few remaining originals in the Cabinet, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (who was CIA director before he took his current post), Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and United States Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer, as well as Mulvaney, who previously served as Office of Management and Budget Director, and Perry. Behind Vice President Mike Pence, DeVos is the longest-serving Trump Cabinet member.
These are the acting Cabinet positions as of October 21:
Department of Homeland Security secretary
Director of National Intelligence
Chief of staff
Small Business Administrator
Here is Trump’s current Cabinet:
Vice President Mike Pence
Commerce: Wilbur Ross
Defense: Mark Esper
White House Chief of Staff: Mick Mulvaney (acting)
State: Mike Pompeo
Education: Betsy DeVos
Energy: Rick Perry
Central Intelligence Agency: Gina Haspel
Health and Human Services: Alex Azar
Homeland Security: Kevin McAleenan (acting)
Housing and Urban Development: Ben Carson
Agriculture: Sonny Perdue
Interior: David Bernhardt
Labor: Eugene Scalia
Transportation: Elaine Chao
Treasury: Steven Mnuchin
Veterans Affairs: Robert Wilkie
Attorney General: William Barr
Environmental Protection Agency: Andrew Wheeler
Office of Management and Budget: Russell Vought (acting — Mulvaney technically stills holds the director position)
United States Trade Representative: Robert Lighthizer
Director of National Intelligence: Joseph Maguire (acting)
Administrator of the Small Business Administration: Chris Pilkerton (acting)
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect that US Ambassador to the UN is no longer a Cabinet-level position in the Trump administration.
