Here are people Trump picked for key positions
President-elect Donald Trump is filling key posts for his second administration, putting an emphasis on aides and allies who were his strongest backers during the 2024 campaign.
Billy Long, Internal Revenue Service commissioner
Former Rep. Billy Long represented Missouri in the U.S. House from 2011 to 2023. Since leaving Congress, Trump said, Long “has worked as a Business and Tax advisor, helping Small Businesses navigate the complexities of complying with the IRS Rules and Regulations.”
A judge is postponing a decision on whether to undo President-elect Donald Trump's conviction in his hush money case because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.
Trump is rolling out appointees and nominees for his upcoming administration, working at a faster pace than in 2016.
Thune beat out two other competitors, Sens. John Cornyn and Rick Scott, by gaining majority support from GOP senators in a secret ballot vote.
Trump also tapped Tulsi Gabbard to serve as director of national intelligence and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida for secretary of state.
While Johnson has no serious challenger, he faces dissent within his ranks, particularly from hard-right conservatives.
A House Republican win in Arizona, alongside another in slow-counting California, gave the GOP enough victories to secure the majority.
Donald Trump has had few defenders in Congress as reliable as Matt Gaetz. That kinship was rewarded Wednesday when Trump named Gaetz as his pick for attorney general.
Trump has said he wouldn’t be a dictator — “except for Day 1." According to his own statements, he's got a lot to do on that first day in Washington.
Johnson's intervention is highly unusual, as the Ethics panel traditionally operated independently.
The prior youngest person to fill the role was Ronald Ziegler, who took the position at age 29 in 1969 in Richard Nixon's administration.
Chris Wright, CEO of Denver-based Liberty Energy, has been one of the industry's loudest voices against efforts to fight climate change.
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President-elect Donald Trump has said it would take about 15 minutes to sort out golf's mess. That started with four hours on the golf course with Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan.
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She’s seen as a relative unknown in education circles, though she expressed support for charter schools and school choice.
The Trump transition team so far has not signed the requisite agreements to allow the FBI to screen his personnel choices.
Earlier, Gaetz launched an effort to personally secure his embattled nomination, meeting with Republican senators behind closed doors.
Matt Gaetz withdrew as President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general following scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigation.
Here is a look at some department functions, and how Trump said he might approach them.
President-elect Donald Trump is clearly prizing experience on television as he chooses people to serve in his new administration.
Trump also rounded out his health team, including tapping a surgeon who opposed some public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rollins, who heads the Trump-allied America First Policy Institute, was the director of his office of American innovation in his first term.
Monday's court filing cites longstanding Justice Department policy shielding presidents from prosecution while in office.
Trump made the threats in a pair of Truth Social posts in which he railed against an influx of illegal migrants, even though southern border apprehensions are near four-year lows.
Trump nominates Jamieson Greer for trade representative, Kevin Hassett for National Economic Council
Trump also reached a required deal with the White House to allow his transition staff to coordinate with the existing federal workforce.
Bhattacharya was one of three authors an October 2020 open letter maintaining that lockdowns were causing irreparable harm.
Among those targeted was New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Trump's pick to serve as the next UN ambassador. A family member of Matt Gaetz also received a bomb threat.
Steep price hikes could be on the way if Donald Trump follows through on proposed tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China. Here are a few top categories.
The father of Trump’s son-in-law pleaded guilty years ago to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations; Trump pardoned him in 2020.
Meanwhile, Trump threatened 100% tariffs against the BRIC alliance of nine nations if they act to undermine the U.S. dollar.
Patel called for reducing the FBI's footprint, said he intends to aggressively hunt down leaks and wants to make it easier to sue journalists.
Republicans swept to power on Election Day and now control the House, the Senate and the White House, with plans for an ambitious 100-day agenda come January.
An emboldened fringe of right-wing “manosphere” influencers has seized on Donald Trump’s presidential win to justify and amplify misogynistic derision and threats online.
It will let Trump transition aides and future administration staffers obtain security clearances to access classified government information.
He's the second person selected by Trump to bow out quickly after being nominated for a position requiring Senate confirmation.
If confirmed next year by the new Republican-led Senate, Atkins would replace Gary Gensler, who has been leading the U.S. government’s crackdown on the crypto industry.
The milestone came just hours after the president-elect tapped Paul Atkins to be the next chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
WASHINGTON — Pete Hegseth spent the week on Capitol Hill trying to reassure Republican senators that he is fit to lead President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Defense in the wake of high-profile allegations about excessive drinking and sexual assault.
The House has shut down Democrats’ efforts to release the long-awaited ethics report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz.
The former Fox News host, Army National Guard major and combat veteran spent much of the week trying to salvage his Cabinet nomination.
In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," he again suggested political rivals should be imprisoned and repeated his deportation promises.
As Donald Trump’s Cabinet takes shape, the nominees offer a preview of how his administration might handle abortion after he repeatedly flip-flopped on the issue on the campaign trail.
The announcement comes a week and a half after President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate loyalist Kash Patel for the position.
President-elect Donald Trump's lawyers urged a judge again Friday to throw out his hush money conviction, balking at the prosecution's suggestion of preserving the verdict.
After weeks of fear and bewilderment about drones buzzing over parts of New York and New Jersey, a U.S. senator is urging the federal government to deploy better drone-tracking technology.
President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams and declared the country was "not going to lose" the polio vaccine.
A judge has refused to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity.
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday added the 27 countries that make up the European Union to the list of trade partners he's threatening with tariffs.
Donald Trump is suggesting that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal.
The House Ethics Committee's long-awaited report into Rep. Matt Gaetz documents a trove of salacious allegations of misconduct. Here's a look at some of the committee's key findings.
First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland.
Famous figures such as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Tesla and X owner Elon Musk pop up there.
Republican Mike Johnson has won re-election to House speakership on first-round voting. He pushed past GOP holdout and got a boost from President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records in an alleged scheme to hide a hush money payment to porn actor.
Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump as the winner of the 2024 election in proceedings that unfolded without violence or mayhem, in stark contrast to the Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump was convicted in what prosecutors called an attempt to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels.
Finishing the U.S-Mexico border wall and migrant detention facilities are part of about $100 billion in proposals, senators said.
The report, arriving just days before Trump is to return to office on Jan. 20, focuses fresh attention on his frantic but failed effort to cling to power in 2020.
Democrats say Hegseth’s lack of experience, comments about women and Black troops, and allegations of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct make him unfit to serve. Some takeaways from the hearing:
Many Republican state officials are aligning with Trump's policies, while some Democratic state officials are mounting a resistance movement.
"Your head will spin when you see what's going to happen," Trump said. Here's a closer look at what he promised to do on Day 1.
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As White House staff secretary, he plays a key role in overseeing the flow of information and business to and from the president.
The vote came amid concerns about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon amid allegations of heavy drinking and abusive behavior toward women.
The South Dakota governor will oversee a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and a clampdown on illegal immigration.
Some of President Trump's working-class and middle-class supporters see a lack of emphasis on lowering consumer costs and making daily American life more affordable.
The 54-46 vote fell almost entirely along party lines, with only one Democrat joining with all Republicans.
