INDEPENDENT2026

The Executive Branch

Article II

The Executive — the President & the administration

The President, Vice President, Cabinet, and cabinet-rank officials, on the same seven Articles. For appointees the first Article — Open Books — reads not as campaign money but as financial conflicts: divestment, industry ties, self-dealing. Our Rating is the full read.

2/25clear both critical Articles

OfficialConflictsVerdict

Keith SonderlingSecretary of Labor (acting)78🥈 Silver Doug BurgumSecretary of the Interior58📚 Summer School Marco RubioSecretary of State78🟤 Copper Chris WrightSecretary of Energy41📚 Summer School Doug CollinsSecretary of Veterans Affairs58🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Scott BessentSecretary of the Treasury58📚 Summer School Susie WilesWhite House Chief of Staff40📚 Summer School Jamieson GreerU.S. Trade Representative40📚 Summer School Brooke RollinsSecretary of Agriculture41🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Scott TurnerSecretary of Housing and Urban Development58🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Sean DuffySecretary of Transportation41🚫 Not Fit for Public Office John RatcliffeCIA Director41📚 Summer School Linda McMahonSecretary of Education41🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Secretary of Health and Human Services41🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Mike WaltzUN Ambassador58🚫 Not Fit for Public Office JD VanceVice President38🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Howard LutnickSecretary of Commerce38🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Markwayne MullinSecretary of Homeland Security41🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Kelly LoefflerSBA Administrator40🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Lee ZeldinEPA Administrator38🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Todd BlancheAttorney General (acting)22🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Pete HegsethSecretary of Defense38🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Bill PulteDirector of National Intelligence (acting)3🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Donald TrumpPresident2🚫 Not Fit for Public Office Russell VoughtOMB Director3🚫 Not Fit for Public Office

Money for appointees is their Open Books score read as financial conflicts of interest. The two critical Articles — Open Books and Free & Fair Elections — still gate the seal. Why a computer scored this →