Cabinet + Afghanistan test

1: Cabinet

President: Donald Trump

  • Commander-in-Chief

  • Chief Diplomat

  • Treaties

  • executive agreements

  • recognition

  • visits (to other countries

Secretary of State: Marco Rubio

  • President’s Main adviser on Foreign Policy

  • First department secretary in Presidential succession

Foreign Aid

Donors of aid (2023)

  1. US ($66 billion)

  2. Germany ($36 billion)

US Foreign Aid recipients (2023)

  1. Ukraine (17 billion)

  2. Israel (3.3 billion)

  3. Ethiopia

  4. Jordan

  5. Somalia

  6. Yemen

  7. Nigeria

  8. Afghanistan

  9. South Sudan

  10. Syria

Defense Secretary: Pete Hegseth

  • main policymaker and advisor for defense

  • National Security Act of 1947: consolidated into one department

  • must be retired from active military duty for 7 years

US defense spending = 895 billion (2024)

  • future budgets only increasing

  • US largest in the world by far

National debt = 36.3 trillion

  • top lenders to US (Japan - 1 trillion, China - 768.6 billion)

Navy

  • 2024 US Navy has 291 ships

    • goal of 355 ships by 2024

  • 2024 China Navy has 355 Ships