Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins is the designated survivor for President Donald Trump‘s speech to a joint session of ...

In the case of Kiefer Sutherland's Thomas Kirkman, he is named the designated survivor during the President's State of the Union speech...and becomes President when an explosion claims the lives ...

The tradition calls for a member of the president's cabinet to be absent from speeches to joint sessions of Congress to ...

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins has been chosen as the designated survivor for President Trump's 2025 joint ...

The designated survivor for a president’s address to Congress starts the day as a Cabinet secretary and ends it that way, too ...

Each year, one Cabinet member is chosen as the "designated survivor" who will sit out the speech in case of a catastrophic event. The name of the designated survivor is not usually revealed to the ...