The presidential Cabinet consists of the vice president, the secretaries of 15 federal agencies who must receive Senate confirmation to officially fill their nominated roles, and a collection of other officials that can change from president to president. It serves as the president's main advisory group.

Trump has wielded a populist mandate and used it almost entirely to advance the interests of the rich and powerful.

One week after Elon Musk held court before the cameras during President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting, many of the Senate-confirmed leaders of government departments and agencies reconvened in the Cabinet Room on Thursday for a different kind of discussion.

If anyone was still in doubt where the power lies in President Donald Trump’s new administration, Wednesday’s first Cabinet meeting made clear it ... referring to a pledge former President George H.W. Bush once made to not raise taxes by declaring ...

Shortly after the end of his first Cabinet meeting—which saw Elon Musk loom over a room of practically mum agency heads—Trump was caught on an Associated Press live feed suggesting to Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones that the journalist tell America the meeting went off without a hitch.