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The vice president of the United States serves in the Cabinet by statute. The heads of departments, appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, are members of the Cabinet, and acting department heads also participate in Cabinet meetings whether or not they have been officially nominated for Senate confirmation. Members of the ...
The President of the United States is, according to the Constitution, the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and Chief Executive of the Federal Government. The Secretary of Defense is the "Principal Assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense", and is vested with statutory authority (10 U.S.C. § 113) to lead the Department and all of its component ...
The United States secretary of defense (acronym: SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense (DoD), the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a high-ranking member of the federal cabinet.
Trump has nominated Fox News host and veteran Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense, the nation’s largest federal agency overseeing all branches of the military, an $850 billion annual budget ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth The combat veteran and former Fox News host defended Trump’s firing of the nation’s senior military officer, and has signaled that more firings could come soon.
Department of Defense (as executive department) became and still are military departments within the Department of Defense: Secretary of the Navy: Francis P. Matthews: Army: September 18, 1947 Secretary of the Army: Gordon Gray: Air Force: Secretary of the Air Force: Stuart Symington: Post Office: February 20, 1792 July 1, 1971: United States ...
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is defined by statute as an "independent establishment" of the federal government, which replaced the Cabinet-level Post Office Department in 1971. The Postal Service is responsible for the collection, transportation, and delivery of the mails, and for the operation of thousands of local post offices ...
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy (announced October 30, 2020)