Office Current officer   1 Vice President of the United States Mike Pence (R) EC 2 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D) RC 3 President pro tempore of the Senate Charles Grassley (R) B 4 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) EPC 5 Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin (R) J 6 Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (R) ?? 7 Attorney General William Barr (R) RC 8 Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt (R) ?? 9 Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue (R) B
RC=Roman Catholicism:	Orders from Rome could take precedence	(as claimed in 2012 by GOP candidate Rick Santorum and others [cf])
J=Judaism	Orders from Israel could take precedence	(as indicated by then GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor [cf])
EC=Evangelical Christian	-	-
B=Baptist	-	-
EPC= Evangelical Presbyterian Church	-	-
??=No identifiable religion	-	-