What do cabinet members do? Here are the expectations for each role in a president's administration

One of the first tasks faced by an incoming president is staffing the Cabinet, the people who collectively are a president's top advisers and the nation's highest officials. Most of the members of this group need to be confirmed by the Senate in order to serve in the roles chosen for them by the president.

Cabinet secretaries run the federal government's departments, serving as their public faces while overseeing implementation of the president's policies. In those roles, they provide counsel to the president on matters related to the departments they manage.

President-elect Donald Trump has announced who he will nominate for many of these top jobs, including secretary of state, but others who will replace President Biden's Cabinet appear up for grabs.