Fleckjohn65 wrote:
So help a Canadian understand! Who takes over the role as POTUS?
Thanks
The line of succession is:
Vice President - Mike Pence
Speaker of the House - Nancy Pelosi, Speaker as of January 2019
President pro tempore of the Senate - currently outgoing is Orin Hatch
Secretary of State - Mike Pompeo
Secretary of the Treasury - Steve Mnuchin
Secretary of Defense - Jim Mattis
Attorney General - Matthew Whitaker - Currently not eligible because he wasn't Senate Confirmed
Secretary of Interior - Ryan Zinke
Secretary of Agriculture - Sonny Preduce
Secretary of Commerce - Wilbur Ross
Secretary of Labor - Alexander Acosta
Secretary of Health and Human Services - Alex Azar
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - Ben Carson
Secretary of Transportation - Elena Chao - Not eligible because she wasn't born in the United States
Secretary of Energy - Ruck Perry
Secretary of Education - Betsy DeVos
Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Robert Wilke
Secretary of Homeland Security - Kirstjen Nielsen
But all of them after the Speaker of the House and Mile Pence have problems.
Either they are part of the Russia interference investigation, or they are facing ethics violations investigations.