# Cabinet Departments Hub The 15 executive departments are the great administrative organs of the federal government, each headed by a Senate-confirmed Secretary (the Attorney General at DOJ) who sits in the President's Cabinet. They are listed below in **order of presidential succession**, which also roughly tracks their age and historical seniority. Each department is a sub-MOC linking down to its component agencies and bureaus. The capture lens: every one of these has a dedicated [[Project 2025]] chapter. The pattern is consistent across them — install a loyalist Secretary, purge the career senior executive service via [[Schedule F]], terminate disfavored functions through [[DOGE]], and assert direct White House control under [[Unitary Executive Theory]]. The departments where this bites hardest — Justice, Homeland Security, State, Defense — are the ones with coercive or security power. ## The 15 departments (order of succession) 1. [[Department of State]] — foreign affairs and diplomacy (1789) 2. [[Department of the Treasury]] — finance, revenue, sanctions; [[FinCEN]] sits here (1789) 3. [[Department of Defense]] — the military; the [[U.S. Army]], [[U.S. Air Force]], and [[U.S. Space Force]] sit here (1947) 4. [[Department of Justice]] — law enforcement and litigation; the [[FBI]] sits here (1870) — **anchor profile** 5. [[Department of the Interior]] — public lands, parks, Native affairs (1849) 6. [[Department of Agriculture]] — farming, food, forests, nutrition (1862) 7. [[Department of Commerce]] — trade, census, weather, standards (1903) 8. [[Department of Labor]] — workers, wages, workplace safety (1913) 9. [[Department of Health and Human Services]] — health, Medicare/Medicaid, FDA, CDC, NIH (1953) 10. [[Department of Housing and Urban Development]] — housing and urban policy (1965) 11. [[Department of Transportation]] — highways, aviation, rail, transit (1967) 12. [[Department of Energy]] — energy policy and the nuclear-weapons complex (1977) 13. [[Department of Education]] — federal education funding and civil-rights enforcement (1979) — a standing abolition target 14. [[Department of Veterans Affairs]] — veterans' health and benefits (1989) 15. [[Department of Homeland Security]] — borders, immigration, disaster, cyber; [[ICE]] sits here (2003) — **anchor profile** ## Cabinet rosters (the people) This page maps the departments as institutions. For *who holds (or held) the seats* under a given president, see the administration cabinet rosters: - [[Trump 2.0 Cabinet Hub]] — second-term roster (current) - [[Trump 1.0 Cabinet Hub]] — first-term roster (2017–2021) ## Related - [[Federal Agencies]] — the parent executive-branch MOC - [[Independent Regulatory Commissions Hub]] - [[Independent Executive Agencies Hub]] - [[Intelligence Community Hub]] - [[Project 2025]] — the chapter-by-chapter blueprint - [[Schedule F]] — the workforce-conversion mechanism