One administration official is leading a government-run cultural institution in Washington as he conducts diplomatic talks with foreign countries. Another is in charge of two agencies, each with multibillion-dollar budgets and thousands of employees. And one cabinet member is leading three agencies while also serving in a powerful role at the White House.
As President Trump dismantles parts of the government, remakes institutions and takes on perceived enemies and those who disappoint him, he is frequently putting top administration officials in charge of multiple federal agencies and offices — an approach that has little precedent.
Agencies and organizations where Trump officials are doing double duty
Targeted for change
Organizations Mr. Trump has clashed with or has sought to pull in line with his political agenda.
•National Archives
•John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
•Office of Special Counsel
•Office of Government Ethics
•Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
•Library of Congress
Focused for dismantlement
Administration goals to get rid of or minimize most workers.
•U.S. Agency for International Development
•Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Alternative picks
Mr. Trump rescinded his NASA nominee and reassigned his nationwide safety adviser.
•National security adviser
•NASA
Cabinet-level officials with more than one job
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Acting U.S.A.I.D. administrator
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Acting national archivist
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Acting national security adviser
On the high of the checklist is Mr. Rubio, a former senator from Florida, who presently holds 4 jobs. The explanations for the enlargement of Mr. Rubio’s portfolio have various: He took over the help company as a part of Mr. Trump’s efforts to dismantle it; turned the chief nationwide safety adviser when Michael Waltz was reassigned to be U.N. ambassador after the Sign scandal; and took over as archivist after Mr. Trump pushed out the company’s administrator.
The Nationwide Archives drew Mr. Trump’s ire for flagging his potential mishandling of labeled supplies, although the administrator he ousted was not on the archives when it raised the problem in 2022.
Mr. Rubio’s standing is outstanding. Few cupboard officers in U.S. historical past have amassed a lot energy in so many areas, though Henry Kissinger was secretary of state and nationwide safety adviser within the Nixon and Ford administrations.
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U.S. trade representative
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Acting director of the Office of Special Counsel
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Acting director of the Office of Government Ethics
Subsequent up is Mr. Greer, the one different cupboard official who juggles multiple further job. A lawyer and Air Drive veteran who served in Iraq, Mr. Greer’s fundamental job is that of the president’s high commerce negotiator, which has included overseeing a zigzagging commerce coverage that has roiled monetary markets.
However Mr. Greer can be serving because the performing chief of two anticorruption watchdog businesses: the Workplace of Particular Counsel and the Workplace of Authorities Ethics. Each businesses irritated Mr. Trump throughout his first time period, with the Workplace of Particular Counsel urging him to fireside one in all his high advisers, Kellyanne Conway, and the Workplace of Authorities Ethics holding up the affirmation of a few of his nominees.
Initially, Mr. Trump named Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins to these roles, however then Mr. Greer took over. Nevertheless, it’s potential he can be leaving a type of posts quickly. Mr. Trump has nominated Paul Ingrassia, a former podcast host, to steer the Workplace of Particular Counsel.
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Transportation secretary
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Interim administrator of NASA
Mr. Duffy, a former Wisconsin congressman, lobbyist and actuality star on MTV, is the most recent Trump administration member to be appointed to a second job. The transportation secretary was already coping with plenty of crises on the Federal Aviation Administration, together with a deadly crash in January.
However amid the busy summer season journey season, Mr. Trump has additionally added the stewardship of NASA to Mr. Duffy’s obligations after turning away from his Elon Musk-backed choose to steer the company, Jared Isaacman.
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Director of the Office of Management and Budget
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Acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Mr. Vought, an architect of the conservative Mission 2025 blueprint for presidency, was a contentious if unsurprising addition to Mr. Trump’s cupboard and holds the identical place he did in Mr. Trump’s first time period.
A skeptic of presidency spending and self-described Christian nationalist, Mr. Vought was additionally put in on the shopper bureau in February by Mr. Trump, as his administration pushed to dismantle the watchdog company. Courtroom orders have stopped the federal government from absolutely gutting the company, for now.
Dual roles beyond the cabinet
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Interim head of the A.T.F.
Mr. Driscoll, a embellished veteran who led a platoon at Fort Drum and served in Iraq, appears a pure match because the secretary of the Military, overseeing about one million troopers. However in April he received a second task that didn’t fairly swimsuit his résumé: interim head of the embattled Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a small gun-safety company that Republicans have lengthy labored to kneecap. Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, was initially tapped for the function, however Mr. Driscoll, a pal of Vice President JD Vance, quickly took over.
The A.T.F. has lengthy been a revolving door for performing administrators, and the present lack of management comes after President Biden’s Senate-confirmed director preemptively resigned in January because the company braced for Mr. Trump’s return. The Trump administration has stated the A.T.F. was “weaponized” towards gun house owners underneath Mr. Biden.
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Envoy for special missions
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Interim president of the Kennedy Center
Mr. Grenell, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany and one in all Mr. Trump’s most reliable loyalists, has a newly created function within the administration: envoy for particular missions, which focuses on thorny diplomatic points. However the task has not all the time gone easily: In talks with Venezuela, he appeared to undercut negotiations Mr. Rubio was pursuing to swap Venezuelans held in El Salvador for American prisoners.
It’s not the one job Mr. Trump has carved out for Mr. Grenell. After the president took management of the Kennedy Heart in February, shifting to purge its as soon as bipartisan board and set up himself as chairman, he named Mr. Grenell because the cultural heart’s interim chief. The middle seems to be protecting Mr. Grenell busy. He has been pressured to defend his management as ticket gross sales have slumped, staff have pushed to unionize, and 5 Democratic senators held a live performance there in protest.
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Deputy attorney general
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Acting librarian of Congress, but not recognized by institution
Mr. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor, was Mr. Trump’s lead lawyer in his legal trial in 2024 in Manhattan. Mr. Trump was discovered responsible of falsifying information to cowl up a intercourse scandal, however the pugnacious Mr. Blanche received the as soon as and future president’s belief, and when Mr. Trump returned to workplace, he put in Mr. Blanche as deputy lawyer common.
Mr. Blanche, the No. 2 official on the Justice Division, claimed a second job in Could, after the Trump administration fired the primary African American librarian of Congress, citing “regarding issues” it stated she had carried out “within the pursuit of D.E.I.”
The White Home claimed Mr. Blanche was the brand new performing director of the library, however workers members pushed again, and Mr. Blanche has but to take an lively function within the management of the establishment.
