"In a handful of days, both presidents used their pardon authority in ways that violated any reasonable understanding of the proper exercise of presidential power. Both claimed to have rewritten the ...
President Donald Trump (R) was inaugurated for his second term as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, 2025. He serves with Vice President J.D. Vance (R), a former senator from Ohio.
[8] While not explicitly identified in the Constitution, the Cabinet secretaries are the 15 agency heads who are in the presidential line of succession. The vice president is also part of the Cabinet.