There are 15.
The fifteen Departments of the Cabinet as it stands at the moment, are as follows
State
Treasury
Defense
Justice
Interior
Agriculture
Commerce
Labor
Health and Human Services
Housing and Urban Development
Transportation
Energy
Education
Veterans Affairs
Homeland Security
The Constitution does not say how large the cabinet should be. It was up to Washington to decide on the size and make-up of his cabinet and later Presidents followed a similar plan. Departments were slowly added and combined .
The department heads, known as secretaries make up the President's cabinet.
No- the president alone should decide what use he can make of his cabinet secretaries. However, he should ask for Congress to abolish those departments (now headed by cabinet secretaries) which are not worth their cost and whose functions could be absorbed by other departments
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us presidents make up the federal cabinet
The heads of 15 executive departments make up the Cabinet. The cabinet helps the president make decisions , gives advice and provides information to the President . The cabinet secretaries also manage their departments and help or hurt the president by the kind of job they do with their departments. The departments of state, justice, treasury and defense are particularly important to the administration. The others are often appointed as much for political reasons as for their expertise in the area of their department. At the president's discretion, the vice-president may be asked to attend cabinet meeting and carry out assignments for the president.
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Usually, they are cabinet members. There are now 15 cabinet members for the 15 departments. However the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the VP also help the president make decisions as well.
They all ready located there. Now, since the Trump administration the departments have added people who want to close or make that department invalid.