Ben Carson was nominated to the position of secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban. Before this nomination and his run in the republican primary Ben Carson was a very successful neurosurgeon. He is not qualified for this position because he has no background in its field, he was a doctor and surgeon and the Housing and Urban Development department's goal is to raise homeownership and he really had no education or background that qualifies him to complete this task. He has a likelihood of being successful in his ideas because the house and senate are both republican. Although he may be successful in his own eyes and in the eyes of other conservatives, he may be seen as not successful and messing things up by liberals. I don't think Carson will have any new policies, he's so uneducated about the department that I feel he doesn't want to look bad and mess anything up so he's just gonna sit back and do nothing because he doesn't really know what to do in the position he's in. Carson will most likely get confirmed by the republican led senate, although according to the New York Times, he is facing much more scrutiny now than other cabinet nominees in the past because of Trump’s lack of transparency to his taxes and business interests (“Now the billionaires Betsy DeVos, Linda McMahon and Wilbur L. Ross Jr., and the multimillionaires Rex W. Tillerson, Ben Carson, Elaine Chao, Steven Mnuchin, Representative Tom Price, Andrew F. Puzder and Todd Ricketts can expect much of the same scrutiny.”).
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions has been nominated for Attorney General of the United States. Previous to this nomination Sessions was, and is, an US senator from Alabama, and had held the position of US Attorney of Southern District Alabama, as appointed by Ronald Reagan. While Sessions is not the most qualified for his position, he has held federal attorney positions in the past and knows how government works-- which is more than I can say for most of the other cabinet nominees. It depends your views when determining of Sessions will make progress in his position, seeing as that the Attorney General don’t decide policies, but rather act as the highest law enforcement official in the country. This means that Sessions will take a much more hard line conservative stance towards movements such as #BlackLivesMatter, which for certain people may be seen as progress. In terms of confirmation I believe Sessions will be confirmed, not only due to his experience which qualifies him for the job, but also because of his current position as a senator from Alabama who has ties to the republican majority house and senate. The positions Sessions is nominated for doesn’t actually decide policies, and so he will probably not bring about new policies. Although, Sessions would be the chief law enforcement official in the nation, and will be allowed to decide who is prosecuted and how harshly they will be tried. It seems that the attorney general nominee will take a much more conservative and emboldened stance than our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch. His close ties to the conservative republicans lead me to believe that he will not do wonders for the liberal agenda.
- Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis
James Mattis has been nominated for Secretary of Defense of the Unites States. Mattis is a veteran of the US Navy Corps, and served as commander of US Central Command for three years up until 2013. I believe this gives him experience, although he may not have been successful in these positions, as in he may not have reflected the values of the country when commanding their military. Although, Mattis definitely knows the inner workings of our country’s military and has worked in defense for his whole life. The position of Secretary of Defense doesn’t necessarily entail control over policies, and so I doubt that Mattis will make large scale political change. Mattis was already a cabinet member under Obama, placing him on the more liberal side of Trump’s cabinet picks. This, I think, makes it very likely for him to be confirmed for the position.
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