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With Republicans controlling the Senate, most President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees, including controversial ones, are expected to secure easy confirmation.
Here is the list of current chosen Cabinet posts and other top White House jobs for Trump’s second administration:
1. Secretary of Homeland Security: Kristi Noem
2. U.N. ambassador: Elise Stefanik
3. Deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel: Taylor Budowich
4. White House press secretary: Karoline Leavitt
5. Deputy Attorney General: Todd Blanche
6. CIA director: John Ratcliffe
7. Director of National Intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard
8. Secretary of State: Marco Rubio
9. White House communications director: Steven Cheung
10. Solicitor General: Dean John Sauer
11. Defense Secretary: Pete Hegseth
12. National Security adviser: Michael Waltz
13. HHS Secretary: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
14. White House Chief of Staff: Susie Wiles
15. Deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser: Stephen Miller
16. Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Doug Collins
17. EPA administrator: Lee Zeldin
18. FCC chairman: Brendan Carr
19. Secretary of Energy: Chris Wright
20. U.S. Ambassador to Israel: Mike Huckabee
21. “Border czar”: Tom Homan
22. U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York: Jay Clayton
23. Interior Secretary: Doug Burgum
24. White House counsel: William McGinley
25. Department of Government Efficiency: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy
26. Deputy Chief of Staff: Dan Scavino
27. Attorney General: Matt Gaetz
28. Deputy chief of staff for legislative, political and public affairs: James Blair
29. Presidential Personnel Office head: Sergio Gor
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