Trump’s Cupboard, White Home employees picks: Who’s been nominated thus far

President-elect Donald Trump continued his key administration and Cupboard bulletins on Tuesday, naming Dr. Mehmet Ouncesto steer the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Providers.  

Even earlier than taking workplace, Trump is difficult the Senate, specifically, to dare defy him over the nominations of Matt Gaetz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and different controversial decisions for his Cupboard and administration positions. Cupboard appointments require Senate approval. 

Right here’s a take a look at the individuals named thus far:

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Secretary of Training: Linda McMahon

Trump nominated Linda McMahon for training secretary on Tuesday. 

McMahon led the Small Enterprise Administration throughout Trump’s preliminary time period from 2017 to 2019 and twice ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut.

McMahon served on the Connecticut Board of Training for a 12 months beginning in 2009 and has spent years on the board of trustees for Sacred Coronary heart College in Connecticut. She’s seen as a relative unknown in training circles, although she has expressed help for constitution faculties and college alternative.

“Linda will use her many years of Management expertise, and deep understanding of each Training and Enterprise, to empower the subsequent Technology of American College students and Staff, and make America Quantity One in Training within the World,” Trump stated in an announcement.

In nominating McMahon, Trump is rewarding a loyal backer of his motion who, together with Lutnick, has additionally helped lead his transition staff. She was with him Tuesday as he attended a launch of SpaceX’s Starship craft in Texas.

Secretary of State: Marco Rubio

Trump named Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to be secretary of state, making the critic-turned-ally his alternative for high diplomat. 

Rubio, 53, is a famous hawk on China, Cuba and Iran, and was a finalist to be Trump’s operating mate on the Republican ticket final summer season. Rubio is the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a member of the Senate Overseas Relations Committee. 

“He will likely be a robust Advocate for our Nation, a real buddy to our Allies, and a fearless Warrior who won’t ever again all the way down to our adversaries,” Trump stated of Rubio in an announcement.

Legal professional Common: Pam Bondi

Trump named Pam Bondi, the previous lawyer basic of Florida, to be U.S. lawyer basic after his different alternative, Matt Gaetz, withdrew his title from consideration.

Bondi is a longtime Trump ally and was one among his legal professionals throughout his first impeachment trial, when he was accused — however not convicted — of abusing his energy as he tried to situation U.S. navy help to Ukraine on that nation investigating then-former Vice President Joe Biden.

Bondi was amongst a gaggle of Republicans who confirmed as much as help Trump at his hush cash prison trial in New York that led to Might with a conviction on 34 felony counts. She’s been a chair on the America First Coverage Institute, a suppose tank arrange by former Trump administration staffers.

Gaetz stepped apart amid continued fallout over a federal intercourse trafficking investigation that solid doubt on his means to be confirmed because the nation’s chief federal legislation enforcement officer.

That announcement capped a turbulent eight-day interval wherein Trump sought to capitalize on his decisive election win to pressure Senate Republicans to simply accept provocative alternatives like Gaetz, who had been investigated by the Justice Division earlier than being tapped final week to steer it. The choice might heighten scrutiny on different controversial Trump nominees, together with Pentagon choose Pete Hegseth, who faces sexual assault allegations that he denies.

Director of Nationwide Intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard

Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has been tapped by Trump to be director of nationwide intelligence, one other instance of Trump prizing loyalty over expertise. 

Gabbard, 43, was a Democratic Home member who unsuccessfully sought the get together’s 2020 presidential nomination earlier than leaving the get together in 2022. She endorsed Trump in August and campaigned typically with him this fall, and he or she’s been accused of echoing Russian propaganda. 

“I do know Tulsi will carry the fearless spirit that has outlined her illustrious profession to our Intelligence Group,” Trump stated in an announcement. 

Gabbard, who has served within the Military Nationwide Guard for greater than twenty years, deploying to Iraq and Kuwait, would come to the function as an outsider in comparison with her predecessor. The present director, Avril Haines, was confirmed by the Senate in 2021 following a number of years in plenty of high nationwide safety and intelligence positions.

Protection Secretary: Pete Hegseth

Pete Hegseth, 44, is a co-host of FOX Information Channel’s “FOX & Associates Weekend” and has been a contributor with the community since 2014. He developed a friendship with Trump, who made common appearances on the present. 

Hegseth served within the Military Nationwide Guard from 2002 to 2021, deploying to Iraq in 2005 and Afghanistan in 2011. He has two Bronze Stars. Nonetheless, Hegseth lacks senior navy and nationwide safety expertise. If confirmed by the Senate, he would inherit the highest job throughout a collection of world crises — starting from Russia’s struggle in Ukraine and the continued assaults within the Center East by Iranian proxies to the push for a cease-fire between Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah and escalating worries concerning the rising alliance between Russia and North Korea. 

Hegseth can also be the writer of “The Battle on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Males Who Maintain Us Free,” revealed earlier this 12 months.

Commerce Secretary: Howard Lutnick

Howard Lutnick heads up the brokerage and funding financial institution Cantor Fitzgerald and is a cryptocurrency fanatic. He’s co-chair of Trump’s transition operation, charged together with Linda McMahon, a former wrestling government who beforehand led Trump’s Small Enterprise Administration, with serving to the president-elect construct a Cupboard for his second administration. 

As commerce secretary, Lutnick would play a key function in finishing up Trump’s plans to lift and implement tariffs. He would oversee a sprawling Cupboard division whose oversight ranges from funding new pc chip factories and imposing commerce restrictions to releasing financial information and monitoring the climate.

Homeland Safety Secretary: Kristi Noem

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Kristi Noem is a well known conservative who used her two phrases main South Dakota to vault to a distinguished place in Republican politics. 

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Noem didn’t order restrictions that different states had issued and as an alternative declared her state “open for enterprise.” Trump held a fireworks rally at Mount Rushmore in July 2020 in one of many first massive gatherings of the pandemic. 

Extra lately, Noem confronted sharp criticism for telling a narrative in her memoir about capturing and killing her canine. 

She is ready to steer a division essential to the president-elect’s hardline immigration agenda in addition to different missions. Homeland Safety oversees pure catastrophe response, the U.S. Secret Service and Transportation Safety Administration brokers who work at airports.

CIA Director: John Ratcliffe

John Ratcliffe was director of nationwide intelligence in the course of the last 12 months and a half of Trump’s first time period, main the U.S. authorities’s spy companies in the course of the coronavirus pandemic. 

His previous expertise in intelligence makes him a extra conventional choose for the job, which requires Senate affirmation, than some rumored loyalists pushed by a few of Trump’s supporters.

Well being and Human Providers Secretary: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine advocate has been tapped by Trump as his choose for secretary of the Division of Well being and Human Providers.  

Kennedy, 70, was a former Democrat who ran as an impartial on this 12 months’s presidential race, deserted his bid after hanging a deal to offer Trump his endorsement with a promise to have a task in well being coverage within the administration. 

He and Trump have since grow to be good pals, with Kennedy often receiving loud applause at Trump’s rallies. 

Transportation Secretary: Sean Duffy

Sean Duffy is a former Home member from Wisconsin who was one among Trump’s most seen defenders on cable information. Duffy served within the Home for practically 9 years, sitting on the Monetary Providers Committee and chairing the subcommittee on insurance coverage and housing. He left Congress in 2019 for a TV profession and has been the host of “The Backside Line” on FOX Enterprise. 

Earlier than getting into politics, Duffy was a actuality TV star on MTV, the place he met his spouse, “FOX and Associates Weekend” co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy. They’ve 9 youngsters.

Veterans Affairs Secretary: Doug Collins

Doug Collins is a former Republican congressman from Georgia who gained recognition for defending Trump throughout his first impeachment trial, which centered on U.S. help for Ukraine. Trump was impeached for urging Ukraine to analyze Joe Biden in 2019 in the course of the Democratic presidential nomination, however he was acquitted by the Senate. 

Collins has additionally served within the armed forces himself and is at the moment a chaplain in the USA Air Power Reserve Command.

Inside Secretary: Doug Burgum

The governor of North Dakota, as soon as little-known outdoors his state, is a former Republican presidential major contender who endorsed Trump after which spent months touring to drum up help for Trump after dropping out of the race. 

Burgum was a severe contender to be Trump’s vice presidential alternative this summer season. The 2-term governor was seen as a doable choose due to his government expertise and enterprise savvy. Burgum additionally has shut ties to deep-pocketed vitality business CEOs.

Vitality Secretary: Chris Wright

A marketing campaign donor and CEO of Denver-based Liberty Vitality, Write is a vocal advocate of oil and gasoline improvement, together with fracking — a key pillar of Trump’s quest to realize U.S. “vitality dominance” within the world market. 

Chris Wright additionally has been one of many business’s loudest voices in opposition to efforts to battle local weather change. He stated the local weather motion all over the world is “collapsing below its personal weight.” The Vitality Division is answerable for advancing vitality, environmental and nuclear safety of the USA. 

Wright additionally gained help from influential conservatives, together with oil and gasoline tycoon Harold Hamm. Hamm, government chairman of Oklahoma-based Continental Assets, a serious shale oil firm, is a longtime Trump supporter and adviser who performed a key function on vitality points in Trump’s first time period.

Environmental Safety Company Administrator: Lee Zeldin

Lee Zeldin was tapped by Trump to be the Environmental Safety Company administrator however doesn’t seem to have any expertise in environmental points. 

Zeldin is a longtime supporter of the previous president. The 44-year-old former U.S. Home member from New York wrote on X, “We’ll restore US vitality dominance, revitalize our auto business to carry again American jobs, and make the US the worldwide chief of AI.” 

“We’ll achieve this whereas defending entry to wash air and water,” he added.

Which Cupboard positions are left? 

• Secretary of the Treasury
• Secretary of Agriculture
• Secretary of Labor
• Secretary of Housing and City Growth

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