The incoming administration is dangerous. President-elect Trump is appointing cabinet members who have positions, records, and goals that threaten our planet and the rights and safety of people everywhere.
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Presiding officer of the Senate and part of President's administration.
Mike Pence has made a career of restricting women's reproductive rights and attacking legal equality with punitive measures.
Enforces the laws of the United States federal government.
Jeff Sessions has a long history of racism and bias against African Americans, Muslims and immigrants that is on public record, making him categorically unfit to hold the position of chief law enforcement officer and lawyer of the U.S. government.
Establish policy for, administer and coordinates most federal assistance to education. Assists the president in executing their education policies and in implementing laws enacted by Congress.
Betsy DeVos's career is defined by her advocacy of school choice and vouchers, deregulating and weakening the public education system, and proliferating private charter schools without regard to outcome.
Half managerial, half advisory. Hires and runs the Executive Office of the President and manages communication and information flow to/from the president.
As chairman of the Republican National Convention, Priebus worked to transform the RNC in accordance with the 2012 election autopsy report, including outreach to minority communities, supporting immigration reform, and reducing the length of the presidential primary season. Upon Trump's nomination as Republican candidate, he publicly encouraged a unified party in his support.
Protects human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress.
Myron Ebell poses an enormous threat to the global environment, potentially reversing decades of U.S. environmental policy that regulates the second largest polluting nation in the world.
Collects, analyzes, evaluates, and disseminates foreign intelligence relating to national security.
Mike Pompeo has demonstrated support for the violation for human rights both in the U.S. and abroad in an effort to keep the U.S. safe.
Represents the United States on the U.N. Security Council during General Assembly meetings.
Nikki Haley is the first female and Indian-American to serve as governor of South Carolina. There is little information on how she would represent the U.S. as UN Ambassador, given the limited scope of her experience in foreign policy.
Has the president’s ear on all topics. Senior member of the Executive Office of the President.
Stephen Bannon's anti-elite, populist values channeled through Breitbart News, documentaries, and other media have widely galvanized anti-immigration, neo-nationalist sentiment within the U.S.
Advises and assists the President on national security and foreign policies.
The retired Army general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency has expressed and supported partisan attitudes toward ethnic groups that call into question his judgment as an independent military expert.
Foreign affairs.
Protect and serve!
Enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans
Leader of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Charged with representing the U.S. on the U.N. Security Council and during almost all plenary meetings of the General Assembly.
Nikki Haley is the first female and Indian-American to serve as governor of South Carolina. There is little information on how she would represent the U.S. as UN Ambassador, given the limited scope of her experience in foreign policy.