View all posts on President Trump’s nominations in this slide show (on computers).

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All permanent members of the Cabinet of the United States as heads of executive departments require the advice and consent of the United States Senate following appointment by the president before taking office. The vice presidency is exceptional in that the position requires an election to office pursuant to the United States Constitution. The president may also designate heads of other agencies and non-Senate-confirmed members of the Executive Office of the President as Cabinet-level members of the Cabinet. The Cabinet meets with the president in the Cabinet Room, a room adjacent to the Oval Office.

As the Republican Party will control the next Senate, it is expected that all of Trump’s designates will be confirmed with little contest. However, some nominees have been met with criticism by a few Senate Republicans.

On November 12, 2024, president-elect Trump announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would work together to lead the Department of Government Efficiency in his second term. Despite the name, it is unlikely to be a federal executive department, since official departments require congressional approval, and is more likely to be a component of the Executive Office of the President or a presidential commission working closely with the Office of Management and Budget.

Trump’s cabinet choices were described by news media as valuing personal loyalty over relevant experience, and for having a range of conflicting ideologies and “eclectic personalities”. It was also described as the wealthiest administration in modern history, with over 13 billionaires chosen to take government posts.[

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Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent (born August 1962) is an American investor and hedge fund manager. He was a partner at Soros Fund Management and the founder of Key Square Group, a global macro investment firm.

Bessent was a major donor, fundraiser, and an economic advisor for the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign. In November 2024, Trump named Bessent as his nominee for United States secretary of the treasury. If confirmed by the Senate, Bessent would be the first openly gay secretary of the Treasury.

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Pamela Jo Bondi (born November 17, 1965) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as Florida attorney general from 2011 to 2019, the first woman elected to the office.

In 2020, Bondi was one of President Donald Trump’s defense lawyers during his first impeachment trial. By 2024, she led the legal arm of the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute. On November 21, 2024, president-elect Trump announced she would be nominated for United States attorney general after previous nominee Matt Gaetz withdrew.

Current Nomination: Secretary of Veteran Affairs
Affiliation: Republican
Former Positions: Tech Entrepreneur from 1983 – 2007, North Dakota Governor from 2016 to 2024.

After graduating from college in 1978, and getting an MBA in 1980, he mortgaged inherited farmland in 1983 to invest in Great Plains Software in Fargo. Becoming the company’s president in 1984, he grew Great Plains into a successful large software company. Burgum sold the company to Microsoft for $1.1 billion in 2001.

He has served as board chairman for Atlassian and SuccessFactors. Burgum is the founder of Kilbourne Group, a Fargo-based real-estate development firm, and also is the co-founder of Arthur Ventures, a software venture capital group.

For more information on his governorship, see Burgum’s North Dakota onAir post.

Douglas Allen Collins (born August 16, 1966) is an American lawyer, politician, and Air Force veteran who is the presumptive nominee for United States secretary of veterans affairs in the Second Trump Administration, having been selected by President-elect Donald Trump in November 2024. He previously served as the U.S. representative for Georgia’s 9th congressional district from 2013 to 2021.

A member of the Republican Party and a staunch supporter of Trumpism, he previously served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013, representing the 27th district, which includes portions of Hall County, Lumpkin County, and White County. Collins also serves as a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve with the rank of colonel.

See Doug Collins – GA post for more information on Collins when he was a congressman.

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Lori Michelle Chavez-DeRemer is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Oregon’s 5th congressional district from 2023 to 2025. A member of the Republican Party, Chavez-DeRemer served as mayor of Happy Valley, Oregon, from 2011 to 2019.

She is the first Republican woman to represent Oregon in the House. Additionally, she is one of the first two Hispanic women (alongside Andrea Salinas) elected to the United States Congress from Oregon. Chavez-DeRemer served one term in the House before being defeated in 2024 by Democrat Janelle Bynum.

On November 22, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Chavez-DeRemer as his secretary of labor.

For more information on her time in congress, see Chavez-DeRemer’s Oregon onAir post.

Sean Patrick Duffy (born October 3, 1971) is an American politician, prosecutor, lobbyist, and reality television personality who is currently a co-host of The Bottom Line on Fox Business, as well as a contributor on Fox News. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin’s 7th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. After resigning from Congress, he became a lobbyist.

He first gained fame as a cast member on The Real World: Boston, 1998’s Road Rules: All Stars and 2002’s Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, before going on to serve as district attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin.

In November 2024, Donald Trump named Duffy as his nominee for Secretary of Transportation in his second presidency.

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Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, anti-vaccine activist, and conspiracy theorist. In 2024, he was announced as the presumptive nominee for United States Secretary of Health and Human Services in President-elect Donald Trump’s second cabinet.

A member of the Kennedy family, he is a son of U.S. attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy. He began his career as an assistant district attorney in New York City. In the mid-1980s, he joined two nonprofits focused on environmental protection, Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). He became an adjunct professor of environmental law at Pace University School of Law in 1986. In 1987, Kennedy founded Pace’s Environmental Litigation Clinic. He founded the nonprofit environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance in 1999. He ran as an independent candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election, then withdrew from the race and endorsed Trump.

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Peter Brian Hegseth (born June 6, 1980) is an American television presenter, author, and former Army National Guard officer. President-elect Donald Trump announced on November 12, 2024, that Hegseth would be his nominee to serve as United States Secretary of Defense in his second cabinet.

A political commentator for Fox News since 2014 and weekend co-host of Fox & Friends from 2017 to 2024, he was previously the executive director of Vets for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America.

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Howard William Lutnick (born July 14, 1961 is an American businessman, who succeeded Bernard Gerald Cantor as the head of Cantor Fitzgerald. Lutnick is the chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Group. After losing 658 employees, including his brother, in the September 11 attacks, Lutnick also survived the subsequent collapse of the towers on the ground, and has since become known for his charity efforts through the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, which helps to aid families of victims of the attacks and natural disasters.

He was a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s 2020 and 2024 presidential campaigns, as well as a vocal proponent of Trump’s proposal to implement broad tariffs. In November 2024, President-elect Trump announced that he intended to nominate Lutnick as secretary of commerce.

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Linda Marie McMahon (born October 4, 1948) is an American politician, business executive, and former professional wrestling performer. She was the 25th administrator of the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019. McMahon has been nominated to lead the Department of Education under the second Trump administration.

McMahon, along with her husband, Vince McMahon, founded sports entertainment company Titan Sports, Inc. (later World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) where she worked as the president and later CEO from 1980 to 2009. During this time, the company grew from a regional business in the northeast to a large multinational corporation. Among other things, she initiated the company’s civic programs, Get R.E.A.L. and SmackDown! Your Vote. She made occasional on-screen performances, most notably in a feud with her husband that culminated at WrestleMania X-Seven. In 2009, she left World Wrestling Entertainment to run for a seat in the United States Senate from Connecticut as a Republican, but lost to Democrat Richard Blumenthal in the 2010 general election. She was the Republican nominee for Connecticut’s other Senate seat in the 2012 race, but lost to Democrat Chris Murphy.

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Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem (born November 30, 1971) is an American politician who has served since 2019 as the 33rd governor of South Dakota. A member of the Republican Party, she was the U.S. representative for South Dakota’s at-large congressional district from 2011 to 2019 and a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives for the 6th district from 2007 to 2011. In November 2024, Donald Trump selected Noem to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security in his second term.

See Kristi Noem – SD post for more information on Noem when she was governor.

Brooke Leslie Rollins (born April 10, 1972) is an American attorney and policy advisor currently announced as the presumptive nominee for United States secretary of agriculture in President Donald Trump’s administration.

Rollins previously served as deputy general counsel, ethics advisor, and policy director to Texas governor Rick Perry. She is an advocate of criminal justice reform. Rollins was the president and CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, an Austin-based conservative think tank, from 2003 through 2018. During her tenure at TPPF, the think tank grew from having a staff of three to a staff of 100.

Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28, 1971) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Florida, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he is the presumptive nominee for Secretary of State. Rubio served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives from 2006 to 2008 and sought the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 2016.

Rubio is a Cuban American from Miami, Florida. After serving as a city commissioner for West Miami in the 1990s, he was elected to represent the 111th district in the Florida House of Representatives in 2000. Subsequently, he was elected speaker of the Florida House; he served for two years beginning in November 2006. Upon leaving the Florida legislature in 2008 due to term limits, Rubio taught at Florida International University.

For more information on his time in congress, see Marco Rubio’s Florida onAir post.

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Eric Scott Turner (born February 26, 1972) is an American businessman, motivational speaker, politician, and former professional football player who served as executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council from 2019 to 2021. Prior, he served as state representative for Texas’ 33rd House District, which includes part of Collin County and all of Rockwall County, from 2013 to 2017. Before entering politics, Turner played cornerback for the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons.

In November 2024, President-elect Trump announced his intent to nominate Turner as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in his second administration.

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Christopher Allen Wright (born June 25, 1965) is an American engineer and businessman who is the CEO of Liberty Energy, North America’s second largest hydraulic fracturing company. He is the presumptive nominee for United States secretary of energy under Donald Trump’s second presidency.

He is a board member of Oklo Inc., a nuclear technology company, and EMX Royalty, a royalty payment company for mineral rights and mining rights.