The power to create a cabinet level post belongs to the president. However, the Congress much appropriate the funds to operate it. The most recent cabinet department is the Department of Homeland Security.
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The place in the Constitution in which Washington claimed it gave him the power to create a cabinet was Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2.
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They both gave more power to the federal government instead of the individual states
The power to create laws, that is legislate is the sole power of Congress as enumerated by the United States Constitution. Congress has further enumerated powers to check and balance the executive and judicial branches of government.