---
type: Body
title: "Secretary of the Treasury"
classification: "executive-office"
chamber: "executive"
code: "EXEC-TREASURY-SECRETARY"
parent: "us/executive/treasury"
schedule_level: "I"
sources:
  - field: definition
    source: "5 U.S.C. § 5312 (Executive Schedule, Level I)"
confidence: official
tags: [body, executive, executive-office]
timestamp: "2026-07-03"
---

# Secretary of the Treasury

Cabinet-rank office (Executive Schedule Level I, 5 U.S.C. § 5312), head of the [Department of the Treasury](/us/executive/treasury/index.md).

## Empowered by the U.S. Code

1,918 sections of the U.S. Code vest authority in this office. A sample:

- [2 U.S.C. § 1105](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-22/section-1105.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 1106](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-22/section-1106.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 1151](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-22a/section-1151.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 1415](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-24/section-1415.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 154](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-5/section-154.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 157](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-5/section-157.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 158](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-5/section-158.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 1942](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-29/section-1942.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 2046](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-30/section-2046.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 2083](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-30/section-2083.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 2108](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-30/section-2108.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 2146](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-30/section-2146.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 2234](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-31/section-2234.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 661d](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-17a/section-661d.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 661f](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-17a/section-661f.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 802](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-19/section-802.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 831](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-19a/section-831.md)
- [3 U.S.C. § 19](/legal/us/code/title-03/chapter-1/section-19.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 2902](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-29/section-2902.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 3102](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-31/section-3102.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 3111](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-31/section-3111.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 4111](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-41/section-4111.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 412](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-4/section-412.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 415](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-4/section-415.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5312](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5312.md)
- …and 1,893 more (full set in data/section_authority_edges.jsonl)