The American President's Cabinet Explained
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- If you think the executive branch is just the President, Vice President, and a small team of advisors, you are wrong. Mr. Beat explains the President's Cabinet.
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In this video, I will explain the history and purpose of the Cabinet.
So let’s start with the Constitution. Article II, Section 2 says the President gets some help- he or she doesn’t have to do job alone. The Cabinet’s official role is to give the President advice based on their expertise. The Constitution actually doesn’t say anything explicitly about a Cabinet. The word “cabinet” comes from the Italian word “cabinetto,” which means a small, private room. You know, a place to talk about important stuff without interruptions. The first President to use the term was James Madison, who called his meetings “the President’s cabinet.”
Over the years, as the country has grown, the Cabinet has grown. George Washington, the First President and still my favorite one by the way, held the first cabinet meeting on February 25, 1793. He had just four Department Heads there. His Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War, Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph. Jefferson and Hamilton spent much of the meeting fighting over the creation of a national bank. Today the Cabinet officially includes the heads of 15 executive departments.
All 15 Department Heads are in the line of succession, meaning that if the President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, and the President por tempore (por temporay) of the U.S. Senate all died, these folks would be next up to take the President’s spot. That’s why Kiefer Sutherland became President that one time, even though he was just the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Wait a second, was that real life? Nooo, yeah I’m pretty sure that’s just a TV show, come to think of it.
The President nominates the department heads and presents them to the Senate to be approved by a simple majority, aka 51 of the 100 Senators approve. The Vice President doesn’t need Senate approval, as he or she is elected, but neither does the White House Chief of Staff, who is basically the President’s personal assistant. Because the Chief of Staff manages the President’s schedule and manages the White House staff, her or she is often seen as a gatekeeper of sorts.
The Chief of Staff actually isn’t technically a part of the Cabinet, though. He or she is what we call a Cabinet-level official. Cabinet-level officials attend Cabinet meetings but are not official Cabinet members. It includes the Trade Representative, Director of National Intelligence, Ambassador to the United Nations, the OMB Director, the CIA Director, the EPA Administrator, and SBA Administrator.
Cabinet members, except the Vice President, can be fired by the President fairly easy. (Donald Trump clip “you’re fired”) Yeah, the current President probably has made that quite evident. All Cabinet members are subject to impeachment by the House of Representatives if they act up.
Now here’s the thing. I haven’t even got to the individual federal agencies that both fall under the umbrella of the departments or are independent agencies. You know, like the FBI, CIA, Federal Trade Commission, Social Security Administration, National Park Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NASA, and many others I am sure you have heard of. For the most part, they all are part of the executive branch.
How many federal agencies are there? Well, I had a really hard time figuring this out. I honestly don’t think anyone really knows.
There might be 430, according to one source I found, or there might just be 115, according to the Administrative Conference of the United States, which recently printed “There is no authoritative list of government agencies.” We do know that there are approximately 4 million people who work for the federal government. Probably. Maybe? That number is not for sure either.
There’s also all the state and local workers who get federal aid, not to mention the millions of contractors who work for the federal government.
The bottom line is, the executive branch is HUGE. The Cabinet is a gigantic force, and not one easily reckoned with.
This video is 5 months old and already requires a complete reboot.
J K 😂
Right. Mike Pompeo instead of Tillerson.
Only 12 remaining
William Barr as attorney general
And, this comment is 2 years old and already requires a complete reboot. 😂😂🤣🤣
This video got a dislike within 1 minute of posting. I'm assuming it's one of the people President Trump has fired since taking office. Who is your favorite Cabinet member? Also, let Ian know if you'd be interested in a video about Cabinet positions proposed but never created.
Mr. Beat Sean spicer and Rex Tillerson
Steve Mnuchin, because he looks like an evil version of John Oliver ^_^
Mattis because I think he's very capable
@alex The more you post online the less whatever point of view you are peddling is taken seriously, the best thing you can do for your party, whatever it is, is to stop posting immediately, not just here, anywhere.
Secretary Mattis because he’s a badass
Watching this in 2020, I can congratulate Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos, Steve Mnuchin, Wilbur Ross, Elaine Chao and Sonny Perdue for making it to the final tier of the 45th annual Cabinet Hunger Games.
Only reason he kept Sonny is because he wants to try and keep some gop support in georgia
@@benshepard8838and Chao because she’s McConnells wife :/
Betsy Devos can go fuck herself though
I never intended the replies to be like this.
@@insertaliashere1379 im a student and Devos' lack of sympathy or simply knowledge of the American public education system is why i have such disdain for her. her covid responses really showed how out of touch she is.
There's probably some dude sitting in an office closet that is some long forgotten federal department and he's just collecting a check. LOL
I used to work for a state government. This really happened: I had a coworker who quit and nobody noticed that she wasn't showing up for work for about 4 months. She was still collecting a paycheck. My department had also been mailing checks to people who had been dead for more than 11 years. I put a stop to that one.
@@russbear31 hey its me, I'm here for my check
@@russbear31 That recently happened to someone in the news, and they ended up having to pay all of the money, back. Was the woman prosecuted?
im sure their are thousands doing this if not 100 of thousands
@@russbear31 oof bereaucracy
"So how many government agencies are there?"
Government: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lol don't worry. Just go to work prole... I mean misinformed citizen.
Can't get rid of big gubmint if you don't know how big it actually is!
@yuuneeq9494
How many gov agencies ?
Too too many!
Half of theses cabinet members aren’t even there anymore lol
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Yes. I didn’t hear Mike Pompeo’s name in there!
Only 6 out of 15 secretaries are left as of July 2020. That’s crazy to think how fast Trump has gone thru staff. ‘You’re fired!’-Trump
trump is about to be fired next week when biden beats him
He wants the best for america. It was showing till demos unleashed "covid" and CSR testing to test if your prone for colds.... Stupid.
@@analara9872 tell me if Michigan is blue bro... Gtfo trump's winning. ALWAYS WINS.
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@@analara9872 GET REAL DUMBASS. OPEN YOUR BLIND EYES.
Oof gotta change this comment, Trump just fired another Defense Secretary lol
I love how most of these people have been fired.
Or resigned in disgrace.
Worst cabinet in years. Literally all corporatists who are unqualified for their positions
@@Spongebrain97 I mean, with very few exceptions. Mattis was qualified, and as much as I hate to admit it, Jeff Sessions was qualified. Now, I'm not trying to legitimize anything Jeff Sessions has done in his life, I'm just saying that he had the necessary qualifications to serve as Attorney General, although he was horrible and shouldn't have ever held the role as he is one evil and racist possum.
@@FloridaMan4205 well yeah Mattis because he was actually in the military but the vast majority of them were bad
@@Spongebrain97 I mean, DeVos, Tillerson, Perry (who I actually thought would rename his department to "The Department of Oops"), and others had no fucking business being in their jobs.
Love the way you said Hamilton’s name. Just don’t forget that Thomas Jefferson’s coming home.
Trump: “Drain the swamp”
Trump: *proceeds to fill his cabinet with swamp creatures*
Swamp creatures like John Bolton as his National Security Advisor.
Thats the biden administration
It’s about equal to the Trump administration in terms of corrupt cabinet members. The difference is, there’s nowhere near as many fervent foaming at the mouth Biden worshipers as there are Trump worshipers. A lot of people only voted for Biden because they didn’t like Trump, the people who voted for Trump treat him like he’s the second coming of Christ. It’s cult like and disturbing
@@kaireid525 it’s every administration, ever.
Left, Right = Corporate Lapdogs.
It was unfortunate
The Italian etymology is a little misleading, as it says nothing of the true history of US presidential cabinets. Even though the US Constitution makes no mention of it, cabinet government was already an established practice within the Westminster system (since the 1600s, and going back further in various forms); because having a cabinet of advisors had served British Prime Ministers so well since the 1720s, it was later adopted by US presidents with a similar advisory function. In the UK, the cabinet has traditionally been more formal than it is in the US context, being held more frequently and taking the form of a board meeting, where items on an agreed agenda are discussed and voted on to become government policy. The various secretaries of departments are then expected to hold to the government line on these policies, whether they agree with them privately or not (collective responsibility).
how is it I never realized the department Rick Perry gaffed on he was in charge of? 😂 that's hilarious
Sorry to "actually" you, but the Department of War was only in charge of the Army and was renamed the Department of the Army underneath the Department of Defense when the latter was created, alongside the Department of the Navy (which includes the Marines) and the new Department of the Air Force.
It's a very common misconception (I'm guessing because the names are similar) that Defense replaced War. A similar popular misconception is that the Air Force was known only as the Air Corps while it was a part of the Army, but it was known as the Army Air Forces from 1941 until 1947.
“The Department of Defense” is still a complete fucking joke though. Should be renamed the Department of Illegal Offensive Wars
The DIOW
However, the SecDef did inherit the seniority of the Sec'y of War, so that he or she is 5 heartbeats away from the Presidency. Normally it depends on the date of establishment of the department, oldest department first.
I'm watching this during school because we have a fire
Holy crap. A fire? Is everyone ok?!?
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The fire was Trump. The building was his cabinet members.
@@vikmanphotography7984 getting help for TDS is not a shame...you should seek it asap
Thank you sir. I have been living in America for over 10 years but never really understood how the government ranking system works 😅 good explanation in simple words lol
I WISH mr beat was president.
I don't think I'd ever want that job lol
Surprising 😳
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I bet he wouldnt just block the mexicans. I'm not trying to inflict racism about anything btw
@esaplllovatic what if Mr Beast actually was?
@@user-qp9pu1xi4k Nobody id blocking Mexicans, America is trying to control and fix the broken immigration process.
You do know Mexicans citizens are being made American Citizens this very day right? And this will continue forever but the process needs to be fixed it really isn't a complicated matter unless you make it political.
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Don't forget the Postmaster General was a cabinet position until 1970.
I think you are going to have to re-explain the constantly changing situation!
The term "cabinet" is also used in parliamentary democracies. The difference is that they are all elected members of parliament of the governing party or parties. They are formally called "ministers" and the head minister is naturally called the "prime minister".
When people from countries that have multiple parties say the parties have to "form a government" post election, it really confused me for the longest time. I thought that every election they rewrote the constitution or something. But i think it refers to that country's "cabinet". Who gets to be in charge of what. That's how I understand it anyway
@@tomrogue13 That's how it works, yes. It just means that the largest party gets to have the top job, but they have to share their cabinet with other parties.
Imagine if Joe Biden needed Republicans (or members of other parties) in his cabinet and you'll get the idea.
My son actually had a homework on on departments in the presidents cabinet today and he likes watching you ( he’s 13 going on 14 ) . How about an updated video
Quick update Rex Tillerson and David Shulkin have been fired
The new Secretary of State will be former US Representative from Kansas and current CIA Director Michael Pompeo
The new Secretary of Veterans Affairs will be current White House doctor Ronny Jackson
Thanks. I may have to make a new video already :/
Well, Mr. Beat said it: Cabinet members can be fired by the president fairly easily!
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@@iammrbeat ...and you have to wait until we have a new chief of staff before you do
Alexander Hamilton ♪. I see what you did there.
The main task of Sonny Perdue is to keep the eternal war against the tumbleweed going.
you mean prop up his family food business
Fellow Gray viewer i see
I want a proposed department video
Fr though
Drsignated survivor was so goddamn good. I want another season
I washed the video from start to finish its so entertaining!!!!! Nice job
+Riana Grace Thank you so much! :D
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I wish mr beat had been my teacher growing up, i probably would have done much better and appreciated history more
Shoulda, woulda, coulda
Hey Mr Beat! How about a companion video about former cabinet offices? Post Master General?
+Nathan Lindberg Fantastic idea!
We no longer have a postmaster general!
Or was the post office simply demoted from the cabinet?
@@Ratchet4647 the USPS is an independent Government Agency
Hi Mr. Beat You've done episodes on the greatest presidents, senators, and Supreme Court justices. I imagine congressmen are just a matter of time. But what about cabinet members? Outside of Alexander Hamilton and Herbert Hoover I can't even think of any off the top of my head unless they later became president.
He should redo this video now and just include all the changes during trumps administration 😂
Trumps cabinet holds cans of spray tan.
Thanks for sharing! :)
Damn, already outdated.
Nice job Mr. Beat, I always enjoy seeing your videos pop up in my sub box
+AimtiTV Thanks so much! :D
Fun fact
In italian gabinetto also refers to the bathroom especially the WC
Me watching this at 3 am for exam tomorrow
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So there are now more people working for the Federal Government than there were people living in the U.S. when the Federal Government was created in 1787.
Thank you this was very helpful and informative 👍👍
Thank you SO much. I would like a video on which of these cabinet members, under Trump, have been replaced, and why. Especially the Attorneys General
This would be a ever running live stream.
“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”
Still waiting for the series “Federal Agencies of the President’s Cabinet”
Take a shot every time the person in the video isn't there anymore. Then come back tomorrow when they've changed again.
Why is the head of the department of transportation not in line to be the president? Anyway awesome video Mr. Beat. I can not wait for your next video.
+Lindsay Manning Thank you! Elaine Chao was born in Taiwan, so she is ineligible to become President.
Thanks for the answer. I did not know a cabinet member could be born outside America. Do you think it is fair that only people born in the USA can be president?
You have to be a natural born citizen, meaning a citizen from birth - not necessarily born in the US. And it kind of makes sense from a national security standpoint. If someone who became a citizen after living in France, Russia, or Iran could become president, you'd always be suspicious about where their real loyalties lie.
+Lindsay Manning Mostly yes, because honestly some immigrants probably deserve a chance to serve.
The reason it was made so was to make sure that their interest and loyalty was to the U.S. and not another country.
I think it is a bit outdated though. Clearly being born here is not always a good way to secure loyalty.
You think he texts the cabinet groupchat to set up a meeting
I know this is late but the kid at the end should definitely make a video on the cabinets that haven't been implemented
Any thoughts on doing an updated video?
I like Ian's idea!
Good info...well done. And that Rick Perry clip.
. what a DOOFUS!! Hard to believe he ran for prez.
@Johnny Irenchi you got that right!
Mr Beat for President!
2020 and this video is 80% outdated already
Beat it, Mr. Beat. FLUSH!
Great video! I never knew about the cabinet! Make more of these sort of videos!
Great videos...keep em coming
Perry kinda sounded like he was joking about it and was about to say the third one,but I guess he actually did forget about it
Mr. Beat 2020?
We need a president like mr beat, or at least House or Senate
Someone who actually knows how things work would be nice
@@Ussonan-Foderation2016 Nobody in government now knows
Do one about Trinidad and Tobago vs Jamaica
What is your education Mr. Beat? thanks for good videos.
+Khasidon Well thanks for watching. I have two bachelor's (Journalism and Education) and one master's (History). This is why I will be in debt for awhile. :/
You seem knowledgeable and educated! Thought it must be law. The American system of governance is interesting even to non Americans. Keep up the good videos. I sometimes link them on Reddit, hopefully your great channel will get more views/subs.
+Khasidon I appreciate you doing that. It means a lot!
Hey there Mr.Beat so how long will it take you to explain
wtfigo in America !
Well the fact that we don't know how many federal agencies there are, or even the exact number of people working for the federal government, is incredibly concerning. The weight of the bureaucracy itself will grow large enough to simply crush the nation.
Mr.Beat yes you Mr.Beat
Well this ones aged is anyone still in the current cabinet there from this video ? Apparently the only one who’ll take Secretary of State the second most powerful position is his son in law. And he’ll probably be locked up shortly.
I actually learned a lot from this video lol 👍
Wouldn't march 3 1913 be William Taft last day in office? Not the 5th, since Wilson took over march 4th
There's a sound in the song you used that sounds like a cat meowing and it's freaking me out!
Wow Mr. Beat. What an amazing video.
+Jett For President Thanks so much!
Listen, Mr. Beats, I really don't mean to put pressure on you, but can you please do a video on the Supreme Court case Texas v. White before December 15th?
That would really help.
+Jett For President I can't promise that, but just let me know ANY questions you have about the case and I will answer them
Okay, thank you.
Anybody else forget about Tillerson?
Can somebody explain to me why is there so many governments agency and why they seem so over specialized
Your explain is really easy to understand. Thanks.
As a note, I don’t care how many people are in it or the budget, I was looking for exactly what each department does and what they overlook
1:27 A L E X A N D E R H A M I L T O N I see what you did there
you should do an update of this
If a cabinet official is impeached, wouldn't the president just fire them before the senate voted on the impeachment?
+TrueBiscuitGaloreVA Probably, yes
If one is impeached, can the president just put them back?
@@eave01 Typically, no. The Senate when they chose to convict, can put a penalty of disqualification as part of the verdict or, alternatively... just not vote to confirm them again.
Though a number of the cabinet positions have not been in existence long enough to compare persons who held the position, I would be interested in a video or videos highlighting best/worst cabinet members in history or in a respective role. The attorney general would be very interesting given the expansion of executive authority and how attorneys general of the United States played a role in that expansion.
I thought it referred to the liquor cabinet in the oval office.
Thank you for this video!
Very cool cameo at the end
Weird how I got this in my recommendation after the election
Well done! I love the video and the channel. Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend!
Correction: The United States War Office did not become the United States Department of of Defense. It became the United States Department of the Army. The Army Air Corp branched off to become the United States Department of the Air Force. The United States Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force were unified under the National Military Establishment. At this point, they were all still cabinet level positions. Circa August 1947, the National Security Act of that same year was amended. This amendment reduced these three departments from cabinet level to military department level under the United States Department of Defense.
Very interesting! I like Pompeo. I didn't realize Perry in in charge of a department he wanted to eliminate. Wow...
It's part of the drain the swamp plan. Many of the cabinet members are in charge of departments they want to eliminate.
I love how you said “Sonny Perdue”.
I haven't read the comments, sorry I'm sure there's plenty of not so idiotic ones among the dirt. First of all congratulations on a well accomplished p4a video! Second, let's talk about all the "secret" agencies and so on and so on. Blessings, e pluribus unum.
Coming back in 2019, half of these people have either been fired or resigned.
oooh so when US TV shows say "federal agent" it can be any of these...oof I thought it was an FBI thing name only
Mr. Beat, did you know that Rex Tillerson resigned?
Actually, he got fired...via Twitter. :)
Where have I seen that before? Oh right, President Tyler.
Almost everyone in his cabinet changed just within 8 months after this video
Dr Ben Carson placement best represented in Dept of Health!!!!
More than half of the cabinet agencies should be done away with, and the pentagon definitely can afford to be pared down as well.
I love looking back at this three years later and knowing the changes and drama that went down.
Hey it's 6 years old now 😮
I get it he had a lot of people working for him and yet it was all about him.
When I was a kid I always thought that the Cabinet was located in the White House kitchen? 🤓kids!
@jbond5150 STOP!! You weren't born politically knowledgable so don't be dumb now. Does it make you feel bigger and smarter when you put someone down? STFU!! 😠
@@shannon3944 lol I agree w/ jbond and also pretty sure flippy birds was joking, anyway.
@@frostylichqueen3551 😉I'm sorry. ❤
Very cool video. Thanks
5:14 Did you mean the Health Department budget is 1.2 Trillion dollars
I just want to know what is a eligibility criteria to be in the cabinet of US ?In my country INDIA the cabinet member must be the member of parliament (representative) .
Sorry I’m a year late, but they must just be a us citizen. They are chosen by the president and then confirmed by the Senate, the upper chamber of our legislature. Hope this helps!
The first cabinet meeting was held on my birthday. That makes it easy to remember for my exam 😂
Right, I completely forgot that trump appointed a creationist to education.
By the way, just woke up from a six-year-long cryogenic sleep and I needed an update on what happened since the accident and I have one question: How in the hell are Ben Carson and Rick Perry cabinet officials?!
Ben Carson makes some sense in that he grew up in the projects so would have some expertise in said subject, and for Rick Perry there is a precedent in the form of Daniel Poneman for someone who does not hold some amount of knowledge in Atomic energy or weapons
I personally would place Ben Carson as Secretary of Health & Human Services because he is a pretty successful and accomplished neurosurgeon and then get rid of Rick Perry.
Get back into your pod
Well the cabinet originally was the lavatory in the french royal palace... and cause such an absolutist monarch had lots to do all day long like sleeping with his mistresses, going hunting, dining elaborately and such things, the one time he had time for some meetings with his advisors/staffers for a briefing and reading important documents and all that, they took that into the room with the toilet... and while the king "throned" with his personal "business" on the way, the minister(s) went over their public business with him... the name stuck, although the habit kind of fell out of favor :D