在许多方面，交通部长对政治家来说都是一个很棒的职位：它到处都是剪彩，并为道路、桥梁和公共交通拨款数百万美元。

特朗普的第一任交通部部长赵小兰（Elaine Chao）曾担任小布什的劳工部长，当特朗普如何执政的许多事情都不确定时，她将华盛顿既定的政治机器的威严和联系带入了内阁。

这一次，特朗普的选择可能会授权削减支出并收回拜登根据 2021 年基础设施法发放的 1.2 万亿美元中的部分资金——尤其是用于电动汽车充电等以气候为重点的举措，以及拆除分裂贫困（通常是少数族裔）社区的高速公路等公平举措。 预计特朗普的下一任交通部长将把纳税人的钱集中在道路和高速公路等“硬”基础设施上，而不是公平计划或交通。

In many ways, the Secretary of Transportation is a fantastic position for politicians: it is full of ribbon-cutting and granting millions of dollars for roads, bridges, and public transportation.

Elaine Chao, Trump's first transportation secretary who served as George W. Bush's labor secretary, brought the majesty and connections of Washington's established political machine into the cabinet at a time when many things were uncertain about how Trump would govern.

特朗普领导下的能源部长将作为他对化石燃料行业承诺的衡量标准。

该机构的核心职责包括维护国家的核武器库存、监管日常用具、管理 17 个国家实验室和清理冷战时期的放射性废物。 然而，在过去的 15 年里，它也成为发放数十亿美元赠款和贷款以加快向低碳电力过渡的巨大引擎——使其成为共和党人的常规目标。

特朗普称气候变化为“骗局”，他承诺收回拜登在 2022 年《降低通货膨胀法案》中获得的任何未动用资金，并可能放慢贷款和赠款的步伐。

如果特朗普的能源部长真的想提取大量资金，他将需要政治或技术头脑，以绕过他自己党内看到资金流入他们选区的成员。

The Energy secretary under Trump would serve as a measure of his commitment to the

fossil fuel industry.

The agency's core responsibilities include maintaining the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons, overseeing everyday appliances, managing 17 national laboratories, and cleaning up Cold War-era radioactive waste. Over the past 15 years, however, it has also become a huge engine for issuing billions of dollars in grants and loans to accelerate the transition to low-carbon electricity – making it a regular target for Republicans.

Calling climate change a "hoax," Trump promised to recoup any unspent funds Biden received under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and could slow the pace of loans and grants.

If he really wants to pull a large amount of the money, Trump’s Energy secretary will need the political or technical savvy to navigate around members of his own party who are seeing the funds land in their districts.

特朗普承诺在他的第二个任期内解散教育部——这与自罗纳德·里根（Ronald Reagan）以来的大多数共和党人没有什么不同。

尽管共和党经常将该机构视为一潭死水，但亿万富翁慈善家贝齐·德沃斯 （Betsy DeVos） 在担任特朗普的教育部长时还是利用了它。她利用它放宽了针对营利性大学的规定，并加强了对那些被指控在校园内有不当性行为的人的辩护。但这一立场可能比特朗普第一个任期开始时更具吸引力，因为保守派——尤其是弗吉尼亚州州长格伦·扬金（Glenn Youngkin）——已经看到了攻击多元化、公平和包容性计划的政治成功。

特朗普可以利用这个角色来搅动教师工会，教师工会是美国一些最大的劳工组织，也是对民主党最忠诚的组织之一。特朗普领导的教育部也肯定会放弃拜登的学生债务减免议程，并逆转民主党改写德沃斯的不当性行为和扩大对跨性别学生的歧视保护的努力。

Trump has pledged to disband the Education Department during his second term — no different than most Republicans since Ronald Reagan.

Despite how the GOP often treats the agency as a backwater, billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos made use of it as Trump’s Education secretary. She wielded it to relax rules that targeted for-profit colleges and to boost defenses for those accused of sexual misconduct on school grounds. But the position is likely far more appealing than it was at the outset of Trump’s first term now that conservatives — especially Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin — have seen political success in attacking diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

It’s a role Trump could use to agitate teachers unions, some of the nation’s largest labor organizations and among the most loyal to Democrats. A Trump-led Education Department is also

certain to abandon Biden’s student debt relief agenda and reverse Democratic efforts to rewrite

DeVos’ sexual misconduct and expand discrimination protections for transgender students.

无论谁被任命为美国最大的综合卫生系统——退伍军人事务部（VA）的负责人，都需要强烈的使命感和厚厚的政治脸皮。

特朗普的第一任退伍军人事务部部长大卫·舒尔金 （David Shulkin） 于 2018 年被推特解雇，此前舒尔金称一份监督报告称其不准确，揭露了一次由纳税人资助的欧洲之行引发争议。

特朗普随后提名了白宫医生罗尼·杰克逊（Ronny Jackson），后者在被指控在联邦政府任职期间创造了有毒的工作环境并醉酒毁坏了一辆汽车后撤回了提名。杰克逊现在是德克萨斯州的共和党众议员，他否认了这些指控。罗伯特·威尔基 （Robert Wilkie） 接替了他，得到确认并在政府的其余时间担任该职位，使他有机会再次担任该职位。

通常用不了多久，解决数百万退伍军人的医疗保健需求就会让人们关注退伍军人事务部多年来的许多失败，为两党的立法者创造现成的素材。

最近备受瞩目的担忧是 2022 年两党的一项法律扩大了暴露于橙剂和其他毒素的退伍军人的福利，这导致了经济压力。这使得该机构负责照顾比以往更多的退伍军人，并产生了数十亿美元的缺口。

在最高法院对多布斯案的裁决之后，特朗普的新退伍军人事务部也有望扭转拜登的一项政策，该政策允许该机构提供堕胎咨询，在某些情况下，还允许该程序本身。

Whoever gets tapped to run the VA — the country’s largest integrated health system — needs a strong sense of purpose and a thick political skin.

David Shulkin, Trump's first VA secretary, was fired by tweet in 2018 after controversy over a taxpayer-funded trip to Europe uncovered by a watchdog report Shulkin called inaccurate.

Trump then nominated White House physician Ronny Jackson, who withdrew his nomination after allegations he created a toxic work environment and drunkenly wrecked a car while serving in the federal government. Jackson, now a Republican representative from Texas, denied the allegations. Robert Wilkie replaced him, got confirmed and served in the role for the rest of the administration, putting him in contention to take the job again.

It often doesn’t take long before addressing the health care needs of millions of military veterans puts a spotlight on many of the VA’s failings over the years, creating ready fodder for lawmakers in both parties.

The latest high-profile concern is the financial strain stemming from a bipartisan 2022 law expanding benefits for veterans exposed to Agent Orange and other toxins. That’s made the agency responsible for the care of more veterans than ever, and generated billions of dollars in shortfalls.

A new Trump VA would also be expected to reverse a Biden policy that allows the agency to provide abortion counseling and, in some cases, the procedure itself, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.