One of the principal purposes of the Cabinet (drawn from Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution) is to advise the President on any subject he/she may require relating to the duties of their respective offices.
The Cabinet meets with the President at regular intervals. Each cabinet member is the head of a department within the government. As the head of the department, the cabinet member would suggest funding to be incorporated into the President's budget for approval by congress. The Cabinet member would also suggest implementation plans for the president's policies. When given approval by the President, the Cabinet member would administer the president's policies in his department.
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The Governor is the head of the executive branch of a state government.
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The Postmaster General was a Cabinet-level position from 1829 to 1971, but the Postmaster General is no longer a Cabinet member since the United States Postal Service is now a special agency outside of the executive branch rather than an executive department.
There are more than 1.4 million other people in the executive branch. The heads of departments are the cabinet secretaries, plus some other cabinet level officials.
The executive branch is composed of the President and his supporting staff. This includes the Cabinet which advises the President on matters pertaining to their agencies.
No. The Secretary of State is a member of the President's Cabinet, and part of the Executive branch of government.
There are three branches of government in the U.S. - Legislative (makes laws, from the Latin "legis" for law), Judicial (the highest court in the land) and Executive. Same is true at the State level - Legislative, Judicial and Executive, though they may be called by different names. The Executive branch signs or vetoes laws, appoints judges at the Federal level (they may be elected at the State level), grants pardons, appoints board and commission members and oversees the armed forces (true at both State and Federal levels of government). Additionally, and largely via the appointed cabinet members, this branch of government oversees the common operations of government - social services, financial/economic, prisons, health care services, and the like. The Executive branch of the U.S. government includes the President, Vice President and Cabinet (and at the State level, usually the Governor, Lt. Governor and the Governor's cabinet)
The Executive Branch of the Federal government is the branch that chooses who will be Secretary of State in the United States. The President of the United States appoints who will be in this post in the Cabinet.
Yes, the Cabinet is part of the Executive branch.
The largest offices in the executive branch are the cabinet level departments. The largests of these is the Department of Defense followed by the Department of Agriculture.
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