Members of the Chen Shui-bian team include: cabinet secretary-general Lee Ying-yuan (formerly Taiwan's deputy representative in Washington), Central Personnel Administration head Lee Yi-yang (previously vice-minister of the Interior), and Public Construction Commission head Kuo Yao-chi (leaving the post of head of the Presidential Office public affairs office). Also, Kaohsiung County commissioner Yu Cheng-hsien joins the cabinet to head the Ministry of the Interior.
陳水扁的台北市團隊入閣，也讓外界認為將使內閣團隊與高層間更具默契，包括駐美副代表李應元返國擔任行政院秘書長、內政部政務次長李逸洋轉任人事行政局長、總統府公共事務室主任郭瑤琪轉任公共工程委員會主委等，加上高雄縣長余政憲入主內政部，都是所謂的「嫡系人馬」。