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A cabinet secretary is usually a senior official (typically a civil servant) who provides services and advice to a cabinet of ministers as part of the Cabinet Office. In many countries, the position can have considerably wider functions and powers, including general responsibility for the entire civil service.
The White House cabinet secretary is a high-ranking position within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. [2] The White House cabinet secretary is the head of the Office of Cabinet Affairs (OCA) within the White House Office [2] and the primary liaison between the president of the United States and the Cabinet departments and agencies.
Following the federal government's model, state executive branches are also organised into executive departments headed by cabinet secretaries. The government of California calls these departments "agencies" or informally "superagencies", while the government of Kentucky styles them as "cabinets".
Presidents have used Cabinet meetings of selected principal officers but to widely differing extents and for different purposes. During President Abraham Lincoln's administration, Secretary of State William H. Seward advocated the use of a parliamentary-style Cabinet government. However, Lincoln rebuffed Seward.
Secretary of the Government or Cabinet Secretary is a senior government official in the executive branch. Positions include: Cabinet Secretary (Bangladesh) Cabinet Secretary (India) Cabinet Secretary (Pakistan) Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary in the United Kingdom; Secretary of the Cabinet (New Zealand) Secretary of the Government (Israel)
After spending more than two years as Cabinet secretary during Trump’s first term, Bill McGinley will return to the White House as the president-elect’s counsel. He has also served as general ...
Independent agencies exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary) and the Executive Office of the President. [1]: 6 There is a further distinction between independent executive agencies and independent regulatory agencies, which have been assigned rulemaking responsibilities or authorities by Congress.
Mike Pence was the first Vice President whose vote was needed to break a tie in a Cabinet secretary's confirmation – that secretary being former Department of Education head Betsy DeVos.