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Shanahan withdrew from consideration for Secretary of Defense. [54] Deputy Secretary of Defense: July 19, 2017 January 1, 2019 Became Acting Secretary of Defense. Robert O. Work: May 1, 2014 July 14, 2017 Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense Kevin M. Sweeney January 23, 2017 January 5, 2019 [55] Eric Chewning: January 6, 2019 January 31 ...
President Trump nominated Former Defense Undersecretary and VA Acting Secretary Robert Wilkie on May 18, 2018, to replace Shulkin. On July 23, 2018, Wilkie was confirmed by the Senate in a vote of 86–9.
A nomination for Secretary of State is reviewed during hearings held by the members of the Foreign Relations Committee, then presented to the full Senate for a vote. Senator Marco Rubio from Florida was announced as President-elect Trump's nominee for the position on November 13, 2024. [15]
Absent from event was Jim Smith, a former Democratic attorney general and candidate for governor, who later served as Florida’s Republican elected secretary of state.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks with President Donald Trump at the Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, U.S., July 31, 2020. Trump, now president-elect, is considering DeSantis for Defense ...
Department of Defense Directive 5100.01 describes the organizational relationships within the department and is the foundational issuance for delineating the major functions of the department. The latest version, signed by former secretary of defense Robert Gates in December 2010, is the first major re-write since 1987. [25] [26]
Secretary Cheney with President George H. W. Bush, 1991. Cheney's most immediate issue as Secretary of Defense was the Department of Defense budget. Cheney deemed it appropriate to cut the budget and downsize the military, following the Reagan Administration's peacetime defense buildup at the height of the Cold War. [55]
Cordell Hull is the only person to have served as secretary of state for more than eight years. Daniel Webster and James G. Blaine are the only secretaries of state to have ever served non-consecutive terms. Warren Christopher served very briefly as acting secretary of state non-consecutively with his later tenure as full-fledged secretary of ...