Marcia Fudge, the Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, has announced that she is retiring effective next week Friday, by which point she will have served for three years and twelve days. She is Biden's second Cabinet Secretary to leave office. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh resigned last year to take a job leading the professional hockey players' union. Last month, President Biden nominated Walsh to join the board of governors of the U.S. Postal Service. Julie Su, who had been the Deputy Labor Secretary since 2021, has been the Acting Secretary since Walsh's departure. Biden nominated Su to permanently succeed Walsh last year, but Sen. Joe Manchin delayed (but did not outright block) the confirmation process, and Biden renominated her again in January.N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 6:54 pm The final list:
93-2 Lloyd Austin, Defense -- confirmed Jan. 22, 2021
92-7 Tom Vilsack, Agriculture -- Feb. 23, 2021
87-7 Denis McDonough, Veterans' Affairs -- Feb. 8, 2021
87-13 Pete Buttigieg, Transportation -- Feb. 2, 2021
84-15 Janet Yellen, Treasury -- Jan. 25, 2021
84-15 Gina Raimondo, Commerce -- Mar. 1, 2021
78-22 Antony Blinken, State -- Jan. 26, 2021
70-30 Merrick Garland, Attorney General -- Mar. 10, 2021
68-29 Marty Walsh, Labor -- Mar. 23, 2021-Mar. 11, 2023
66-34 Marcia Fudge, Housing and Urban Development -- Mar. 10, 2021-Mar. 22, 2024
64-35 Jennifer Granholm, Energy -- Feb. 25, 2021
64-33 Miguel Cardona, Education -- Mar. 1, 2021
56-43 Alejandro Mayorkas, Homeland Security -- Feb. 2, 2021
51-40 Deb Haaland, Interior -- Mar. 15, 2021
50-49 Xavier Becerra, Health and Human Services -- Mar. 18, 2021
Again, that's setting aside other Cabinet-level positions.
At this point in Donald Trump's presidency (Mar. 11, 2020), nine of his fifteen original Cabinet heads had departed:
-Tom Price, Health and Human Services (Sep. 29, 2017)
-David Shulkin, Veterans' Affairs (Mar. 28, 2018)
-Rex Tillerson, State (Mar. 31, 2018)
-Jeff Sessions, Attorney General (Nov. 7, 2018)
-James Mattis, Defense (Jan. 1, 2019)
-John Kelly, Homeland Security (Jan. 2, 2019)
-Ryan Zinke, Interior (Jan. 2, 2019)
-Alex Acosta, Labor (July 19, 2019)
-Rick Perry, Energy (Dec. 1, 2019)