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The cabinet is made up of 16 departments.

This is the cabinet as of 10/22/2010

  • The President (Barack Obama)
  • The Vice President (Joe Biden)
  • Secretary of Agriculture (Tom Vilsack)
  • Secretary of Commerce (Gary Locke)
  • Secretary of Defense (Robert Gates)
  • Secretary of Education (Arne Duncan)
  • Secretary of Energy (Steven Chu)
  • Secretary of Health and Human Services (Kathleen Sebelius)
  • Secretary of Homeland Security (Janet Napolitano)
  • Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Shaun Donovan)
  • Secretary of Interior (Ken Salazar)
  • Attorney General (Eric Holder)
  • Secretary of Labor (Hilda Solis)
  • Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton)
  • Secretary of Transportation (Ray LaHood)
  • Secretary of Treasury (Timothy Geithner)
  • Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Eric K. Shinseki)
  • Ambassador to the United Nations (Susan Rice)
  • Chief of Staff (Pete Rouse)
  • Council of Economic Advisors Chair (Austan Goolsbee)
  • Environmental Protection Agency Administrator (Lisa Jackson)
  • Office of Management and Budget Director (Jeffrey Zients [acting])
  • United States Trade Representative (Ronald Kirk)
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