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Analyse the claim that nowadays 'the president's cabinet performs no useful functions'. Many people's first impressions of the US cabinet can be deceiving, as it can put forward the idea that they bring both the administration and the bureaucracy together. A cabinet rank department's role is to be responsible for areas of policy like, among many others, Defense, Education and Transport. Each of these departments is headed by a secretary who represents it in cabinet. The president appoints these heads of departments, but these must be ratified by the senate. The president's cabinet are mainly responsible for providing the president with advice and carrying out his decisions. The cabinet has a membership of just over twenty, and includes such people as the heads of executive departments, e.g. Donald Rumsfield who is the Secretary of Defense and Rod Paige the Secretary of Education. It can also include figures like the UN Ambassador and...

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