The United States has a predefined presidential plan of succession should both the President and Vice President be removed from office (encapsulating all reasons here). For example, it goes as follows:
- Speaker of the House
- President pro tempore of the senate
- Secretary of State
- Secratary of the Treasury
In order for one to be president, a particular condition is that they have American Citizenship by birth. My question is, should one of these cabinet members be foreign born, does the line of succession skip them?
This question here here says that successors can be skipped, but this is in the case that the successor does not want to assume the Presidency. It doesn't cover the situation where a confirmed cabinet member wants the job but is foreign born.