Second Cabinet of Donald Trump
On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term as president of the United States. His administration has to fill some 4,000 posts, which include members of the cabinet. While the president has some discretion in determining what posts are part of the cabinet, its core members are the vice president and heads of the 15 executive departments. All these positions, except VP, require Senate confirmation and are in the order of presidential succession. Other cabinet-level posts include chief of staff, director of national intelligence, head of the CIA, and surgeon general.
Below are Trump’s selections for his second cabinet as well as other key posts in his administration.
Cabinet
The table below features the principal members of the cabinet: the vice president and the various department heads. As noted above, the department posts require Senate confirmation.
| post | name | term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pam Bondi served from February 5, 2025, until April 2, 2026, when she was fired. | |||
| 2Lori Chavez-DeRemer served from March 11, 2025, until April 20, 2026, when she resigned. | |||
| 3Kristi Noem served from January 25, 2025, until March 5, 2026, when she was fired. | |||
| Vice President | J.D. Vance | January 20, 2025– | |
| Secretary of State | Marco Rubio | January 21, 2025– | |
| Secretary of the Treasury | Scott Bessent | January 28, 2025– | |
| Secretary of Defense | Pete Hegseth | January 25, 2025– | |
| Attorney General | Todd Blanche1 | August 10, 2026– | |
| Secretary of the Interior | Doug Burgum | February 1, 2025– | |
| Secretary of Agriculture | Brooke Rollins | February 13, 2025– | |
| Secretary of Commerce | Howard Lutnick | February 19, 2025– | |
| Secretary of Labor | Keith Sonderling2 | October 2, 2026– | |
| Secretary of Health and Human Services | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | February 13, 2025– | |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | Scott Turner | February 5, 2025– | |
| Secretary of Transportation | Sean Duffy | January 28, 2025– | |
| Secretary of Energy | Chris Wright | February 3, 2025– | |
| Secretary of Education | Linda McMahon | March 3, 2025– | |
| Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Doug Collins | February 5, 2025– | |
| Secretary of Homeland Security | Markwayne Mullin3 | March 24, 2026-- | |
Other members
The table below contains other positions that require Senate confirmation.
| post | name | term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Tulsi Gabbard served from February 12, 2025, until June 12, 2026, when she resigned. | |||
| 2Susan Monarez served from July 31, 2025, until August 27, 2025, when she was fired. | |||
| 3 Casey Means was the original nominee, but Trump withdrew her nomination. | |||
| 4Stephen Miran served from March 12, 2025, until February 3, 2026, when he resigned. | |||
| Director of the CIA | John Ratcliffe | January 23, 2025– | |
| Director of National Intelligence | Jay Clayton1 | August 3, 2026– | |
| Director of the FBI | Kash Patel | February 21, 2025– | |
| Ambassador to the UN | Michael Waltz | September 20, 2025 | |
| Ambassador to NATO | Matthew Whitaker | April 3, 2025– | |
| Ambassador to Israel | Mike Huckabee | April 9, 2025– | |
| Administrator of the EPA | Lee Zeldin | January 29, 2025– | |
| Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | Mehmet Oz | April 4, 2025– | |
| Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Erica Schwartz2 | August 13, 2026– | |
| Surgeon General | 3 | ||
| Administrator of the Small Business Administration | Kelly Loeffler | February 20, 2025– | |
| Director of the Office of Management and Budget | Russell Vought | February 7, 2025– | |
| U.S. Trade Representative | Jamieson Greer | February 27, 2025– | |
| Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers | Christopher Phelan4 | August 10, 2026– | |
The table below contains positions that do not require Senate confirmation.
| post | name | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Susie Wiles served from January 20, 2025, until November 6, 2026. | |||
| 2Mike Waltz served from January 20, 2025 to May 1, 2025, when he stepped down to become U.S. ambassador to the UN. Marco Rubio became interim national security adviser on May 1 and was appointed to the post permanently on September 22, 2026. | |||
| 3David Warrington served from January 20, 2025, to September 1, 2026. | |||
| 4Karoline Leavitt served from January 20, 2025, until August 27, 2026; Katie Zacharia served from October 12 to October 16, 2026. | |||
| Chief of Staff | Stephen Miller1 | ||
| Border Czar | Thomas Homan | ||
| National Security Adviser | Marco Rubio2 | ||
| Homeland Security Adviser | Stephen Miller | ||
| White House Counsel | Will Scharf2 | ||
| Communications Director | Steven Cheung | ||
| White House Press Secretary | 3 | ||
| Chair of the FCC | Brendan Carr | ||
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