Barack Obama with members of his cabinet in the Cabinet Room at the White House, April 2009.
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The US cabinet is a bit like the British monarchy — everyone talks about it, but no one quite knows what it does. Every time a new administration takes over in Washington, the media give an awful lot of coverage to the appointment of the new president’s cabinet. The arrival of Barack Obama on 20 January 2009, was no exception.
The president’s cabinet is an advisory group appointed by the president to help him make decisions and run the federal government. Traditionally, ‘the cabinet’ as a group refers to the heads of the (now) 15 executive departments who are ex officio members of the cabinet.
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