"I left it to my wife," Carson told a House panel Tuesday. The cabinet secretary serves as a liaison between the President and cabinet departments and secretaries. Carson isn't the only Cabinet secretary's wife to play a visible role in a federal agency. Spousal travelA growing number of President Trump's Cabinet secretaries have found themselves making headlines over how they travel, and in many cases, their wives play a role. "Love on the Bosporus #summer," Lola Zinke wrote in an August 2017 tweet with a photo of herself and Secretary Zinke, the sun glinting across the water behind them.

Source: CNN March 25, 2018 18:45 UTC