Since winning the election last week, President-elect Donald Trump has begun evaluating and rolling out his picks for his Cabinet and other top roles.
Here’s a roundup of whom Trump has picked to fill top jobs in his administration:
Publicly announced
White House Chief of Staff – Susie Wiles
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations – Elise Stefanik
National Security Adviser – Michael Waltz
“Border Czar” – Tom Homan
Ambassador to Israel – Mike Huckabee
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator – Lee Zeldin
Middle East Envoy – Steven Witkoff
White House Counsel – William McGinley
CIA Director – John Ratcliffe
Department of Government Efficiency – Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy
Secretary of Defense – Pete Hegseth
Homeland Security Secretary – Kristi Noem
Deputy Chief of Staff – Dan Scavino
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor – Stephen Miller
Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political and Public Affairs – James Blair
Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Personnel – Taylor Budowich
Director of National Intelligence – Tulsi Gabbard
Secretary of State – Marco Rubio
U.S. Attorney General – Pam Bondi
Secretary of Health and Human Services – Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York – Jay Clayton
Secretary of Veterans Affairs – Doug Collins
U.S Solicitor General – Dean John Sauer
Deputy Attorney General – Todd Blanche
Secretary of the Interior – Doug Burgum
Communications Director – Steven Cheung
Director of Presidential Personnel – Sergio Gor
Press Secretary – Karoline Leavitt
Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary – William Owen Scharf
Secretary of Energy – Chris Wright
Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission – Brendan Carr
Secretary of Transportation – Sean Duffy
Secretary of Commerce – Howard Lutnick
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator – Dr. Mehmet Oz
Secretary of Education – Linda McMahon
Ambassador to NATO – Matthew Whitaker
Treasury Secretary – Scott Bessent
Office of Management and Budget – Russ Vought
Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development – Scott Turner
Labor Secretary –Lori Chavez-DeRemer
Director of CDC – Dave Weldon
FDA commissioner – Marty Makary
Surgeon General – Janette Nesheiwat
Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism – Sebastian Gorka
Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor – Alex Wong
White House Chief of Staff – Susie Wiles
Wiles has been widely lauded for heading Trump’s successful campaign this year, having run Trump’s campaign operations in Florida in 2016 and 2020. She maintained close ties with the president-elect throughout the Biden administration and signed on as CEO of Trump’s Save America PAC in 2021.
“Susie is tough, smart, innovative and is universally admired and respected. Susie will continue to work tirelessly to Make America Great Again. It is a well deserved honor to have Susie as the first-ever female Chief of Staff in United States history. I have no doubt that she will make our country proud,” Trump said in a statement.
Trump picked campaign manager Susie Wiles for his chief of staff. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
US Ambassador to the United Nations – Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik, the New York Republican representative and current House GOP Conference Chair has been an attack dog for Trump in Congress.
She is a staunch supporter of Israel, having made headlines for her combative lines of questioning of Ivy League university presidents over their handling of anti-Israel protests, some of which prompted the presidents to resign.
President-elect Trump picked Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., to be the next ambassador to the United Nations. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
National Security Adviser – Michael Waltz
On Tuesday, Trump announced the Florida Republican representative and former Army Green Beret would be his national security adviser. He’s decidedly a hawk on China and Iran.
