[ASA Vet]

President Trump Cabinet

Jefferson Sessions as Vice President

Department of State, (return INS.) Newt Gingrich
Department of Justice Rep. Steve King
Department of Treasury, (includes former Homeland Security - Customs) Carl Icahn (Offered and Accepted)
Department of War, (change the name back.) Include former VA function Gen. James Mattis
Department of Interior, (includes the legitimate functions only of former Dept. of Transportation, Dept. of Homeland Security - Border Patrol, and Energy Departments) Gov. Palin
Department of Labor and Commerce Herman Cain

This proposed model has the President directly managing seven subordinates which is optimal.

Department of Homeland Security ELIMINATE
Department of Education ELIMINATE as proposed by The Donald, 9/23/25 at a Columbia, SC Town Hall with Sen. Tim Scott.
Department of Energy ELIMINATE
Department of Health and Human Services ELIMINATE
Department of Housing and Urban Development ELIMINATE
Department of Veterans Affairs ELIMINATE
Department of Agriculture ELIMINATE
Department of Transportation ELIMINATE

On Fox news Sunday, 10/18/15 Trump said he would cut funding for EPA and Dept. of Ed.

In non-cabinet level jobs

Sheriff Clarke should be FBI Director
Michelle Bachman as IRS Commissioner under Secretary Carl Icahn in Treasury
Admiral James A. Ace Lyons as Undersecretary of War Navy Branch.
LTC Allen West as Undersecretary of War Army Branch.
Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney as Undersecretary of War Air Force Branch.
Lynnette Diamond Hardaway and Rochelle Silk Richardson would be great as President Trumps Co-Press Secretaries.

Marsha Blackburn, Speaker of the House
Ted Cruz as Senate Majority Leader.

[Jim Noble]

I would return Navy to cabinet status (separate from War). If we build the Navy I think Trump will, it will be fine.

I would abolish the Department of the Air Force, returning bombardment and fighter protection to an Army Air Corps and keeping Marine and Naval Aviation as is.

[kingu]

I hope you’re extremely wrong in your proposals; what we don’t need right now is another herd of politicians, most of which have caught the Washingtonian flu, riding shotgun over government. We honestly need the executive to draw from outside the political spectrum, and most especially, not dilute the already precious few conservative votes that are left in Congress.

What we honestly don’t need is more politicians running things. That’s what gets us moronic dictates like ‘no saying Merry Christmas at the VA’ because someone ‘might interpret it as a state religion.’

I’m sure that’s a great wishlist, but for me, it is yet another nightmare of politicos who’ll fill junior positions with their family members who will be unfireable as they’re related to the movers and shakers in Washington.

[aragona]

Yup! That works!

[DoughtyOne]

Got a question for ya. I don’t know Sessions very well.

Does he have the personality to drive his beliefs home?

It’s one thing to have a good values set, but if you can’t convey it to people so they buy in, what good is it?

If he is at all decent in his public speaking and inspiring others, I’ll start supporting him for the vice-presidential slot.

I’m drifting Trump/Sessions 2016. Tentative for now...

[nathanbedford]

The federal government is now too big and too “path dependent,” as the social scientists say, to be shaken apart by one transient occupant of the White House....The vigor of ...of our federal government – won’t easily be trumped.

Occasionally after wading through the miasma of self absorbed leftist writing one encounters a shaft of sunlight.

The truth is that Trump, or even Ted Cruz for that matter, cannot alone reverse course of our massive ship of state. John F. Kennedy once expressed his extreme frustration saying that he issued orders and directives to the bureaucracy but nothing happens. So it will be with Trump, or even Ted Cruz, as it has been with every president since at least Franklin Roosevelt.

Perhaps those Trump supporters who believe that bombast can overcome entrenched interests that are deeply dug in in Washington will at least concede that their man will need more than rhetoric if he is to achieve anything lasting in terms of reforming Washington. Please note, it took only a couple of years for George HW Bush to set in motion the undoing of virtually everything that Ronald Reagan stood for.

Perhaps those who put their faith in one man will sober up and take another look at the Article V approach which, when coupled with a charismatic leader in the White House (such as Ted Cruz) might actually enact some reforms of process which might keep the Republic from hurtling over the cliff.