The executive branch of the US government consists of the President, Vice President, Cabinet, and executive departments and agencies. The President is both head of state and head of the executive branch. Key powers of the President include legislative functions like signing bills into law, executive functions as Commander-in-Chief, and administrative functions such as appointing Cabinet members and ambassadors. The Vice President replaces the President if necessary and acts as President of the Senate. Voters elect electors who then formally elect the President and Vice President in the Electoral College system.

2. Introduction:
 is the part of government that has
sole authority and responsibility for the daily
administration of the state bureaucracy.
 The executive power in the federal government is
vested in the President of the United States, although
power is often delegated to the Cabinet members and
other officials.

4. Consists of:
 President
 Vice-president
 Cabinet
 Executive departments and agencies

5. President:
 He is the head of the
executive branch.
 He is also the head of
state ,
 Commander in chief,
 And Chief diplomat.
 The current president is
44th in the history of the
United States “barrack
Obama”

6. Functions of the president:
1-legislative powers: “how a bill
becomes a law”
 Final signatory on a bill or
a treaty.
 According to the
Constitution, the president
may convene either or both
houses of Congress. If both
houses cannot agree on a
date of adjournment, the
president may appoint a
date for Congress to
adjourn.

7. 2- Executive powers:
 He is the commander in
chief of the U.S. military
power.
 Direction of U.S. foreign
policy through
department of state and
department of defense
 Responsible for the
safety of U.S. citizens
abroad.

8. 3- Administrative powers:
 The president is the chief
executive of the united states.
 The president appoints
members of the cabinet.
 The president appoints high
executive officials as
secretaries, ambassadors, and
other federal officers.
 The president controls the
executive branch “ up to 4
million personal” through
executive orders.
 The president has the right to
fire any executive official.

9. 4- Judicial powers:
 Nomination of federal
judges and members of
the supreme court.
 Granting pardons.
 Withholding state
secrets.

10. Vice-president:
 The Vice President is the
second-highest executive
official in rank of the
government.
 As first in the U.S.
presidential line of
succession, the Vice
President becomes
President upon the death,
resignation, or removal of
the President, which has
happened nine times in
U.S. history.
 He is currently Joe biden

11. Role of vice-president:
 Takes the place of the president if any of the previously
mentioned cases occurred.
 He is also according to the U.S. constitution the
president of the senate.
 As president of the senate he is a member of the
senate, but he does not have the right to vote.
 He can only vote to break a legislative tie.

12. Cabinet:
 They are appointed by the
president.
 composed of the heads of
the federal executive
departments.
 If approved, they are sworn
in and begin their duties.
 serve at the pleasure of the
President, which means the
President may remove them
at will.
 The Cabinet includes the Vice
President and the heads of 15
executive departments

13. Department of state:
 The most senior of all federal
executive departments.
 The Secretary of State is the third-
highest official of the executive
branch of the federal government of
the United States, after the
President and Vice President.
 Has many duties and
responsibilities. The Secretary
serves as the President's chief
adviser on U.S. foreign policy
interprets, and terminates treaties
and agreements, personally
participates in or directs U.S.
representatives to international
conferences, organizations, and
agencies.
 The secretary of state is currently
Hillary Clinton

14. Other cabinet officials,
commissions and agencies:
 In addition to departments, there are a number of staff
organizations grouped into the Executive Office of the
President.
 These include the White House staff, the National
Security Council, the Office of Management and
Budget, the Council of Economic Advisers, the Council
on Environmental Quality, the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative, the Office of National Drug Control
Policy and the Office of Science and Technology
Policy.

15. How a president gets elected?
What comes next is the process that the president and
the vice president gets each elected.

16. voters elects electors:
 Actually voters in the U.S. presidential elections don’t
go to vote for a president over another.
 They get a ballot, and they instead elect an electors to
represent them in the electoral college.

17. What is an electoral college:
 consists of the electors appointed by
each state who formally elect
the President and Vice President of
the United States.
 Since 1964, there have been 538
electors in each presidential
election.
 the Constitution specifies how
many electors each state is entitled
to have and that each state's
legislature decides how its electors
are to be chosen. U.S. territories are
not represented in the Electoral
College.
 The Electoral College is an example
of an indirect election, as opposed
to a direct election by United States
citizens.

18. Formation of an electoral college:
 The voters of each state, and the District of Columbia,
vote for electors to be the authorized constitutional
participants in a presidential election.
 The Twelfth Amendment provides for each elector to
cast one vote for President and one vote for Vice
President.
 Candidates for elector are nominated by their state
political parties in the months prior to Election Day.

19. Election of a president and a vice
president:
 Electors chosen on Election Day meet in their
respective state capitals (or in the case of Washington,
D.C., within the District)
 To achieve victory in the presidential election, a
candidate must win half of the electoral college (269)
plus one vote.