Content Details
DCPD-201700004 - Letter to the Nation on Cabinet Member Exit Memorandums
- Category
- Budget and Presidential Materials
- Collection
- Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Publisher
- Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
- Event Date
- January 4, 2017
- President
- Barack H. Obama
- Document Categories
- Letters and Messages : Cabinet member exit memorandums, letter to the Nation
- Subjects
- Armed Forces, U.S. : "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, repeal
Budget, Federal : Deficit and national debt
Civil rights : Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons, equality
Civil rights : Wage equality
Communications : Broadband and wireless technologies
Cuba : Relations with U.S.
Developing countries : U.S. assistance
Economy, national : Household income and wages
Economy, national : Improvement
Economy, national : Poverty
Education : High school graduation rate
Education : Postsecondary education :: Career training and continuing education
Education : Postsecondary education :: College opportunity, expansion efforts
Employment and unemployment : Job creation and growth
Energy : Alternative and renewable sources and technologies :: U.S. production
Environment : Paris Agreement
Health and medical care : Health insurance reforms
Health and medical care : Insurance coverage and access to providers
Immigration and naturalization : Reform
Iran : Nuclear program, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
Judiciary : Supreme Court :: Associate Justices
Law enforcement and crime : Criminal justice system, reform efforts
Law enforcement and crime : Gun violence, prevention efforts
Presidency, U.S. : Cabinet member exit memorandums
Presidency, U.S. : President-elect
Taxation : Tax Code, reform
Terrorism : Counterterrorism efforts
Terrorism : Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist organization
- Names
- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader; Kagan, Elena; Sotomayor, Sonia M.; Trump, Donald J.
- Notes
- The Office of the Press Secretary released online versions of the exit memorandums submitted to the President by each Cabinet member. The letter referred to Supreme Court Associate Justices Sonia M. Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and President- elect Donald J. Trump. It also referred to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist organization. This letter was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on January 5.