President-elect Donald J. Trump has quickly chosen many of the figures he wants to serve in his cabinet and in other senior positions during his second term. The cabinet always comprises at least 16 positions — the vice president and the heads of the 15 executive departments — and presidents have discretion to elevate other officials, like the White House chief of staff, to the cabinet level. This page will be updated as new announcements are made.
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A Florida senator who was first elected in 2010 as part of a new generation of conservative Tea Party leaders, Mr. Rubio was ridiculed by Mr. Trump as “Little Marco” when they competed for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
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Ms. Bondi served on Mr. Trump’s legal team during his first impeachment and currently leads the legal arm of the America First Policy Institute. After stepping down as Florida’s attorney general in 2019, she went to work as a lobbyist for Ballard Partners, run by Brian Ballard, a close associate and fund-raiser for Mr. Trump.
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Mr. Hegseth is a Fox News host and a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Kristi Noem
Homeland security secretary
Announced
Ms. Noem, the governor of South Dakota, is a Trump loyalist who was once seen as a potential candidate for vice president.
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Ms. Chavez-DeRemer, an Oregon congresswoman, recently lost her re-election bid. She has support from influential unions like the Teamsters and has backed the expansion of labor rights.
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Mr. Ratcliffe is a former Texas congressman who served as director of national intelligence during Mr. Trump’s first term.
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A former Democratic House member who ran for president in 2020 and then left the party, Ms. Gabbard was briefly considered by Mr. Trump as a possible running mate. She is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve and served in Iraq.
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Mehmet Oz
Medicare and Medicaid administrator
Announced
Dr. Oz, a celebrity physician, lost to John Fetterman in 2022 in a race to represent Pennsylvania in the Senate. He had a history of dispensing dubious medical advice on his daytime show, which ceased production when he announced his bid for the Senate. In the early days of the pandemic, he clashed with medical experts by promoting the malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to ward off the coronavirus.
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A former congressman from Long Island who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2022, Mr. Zeldin is an avid supporter of Mr. Trump who voted against certifying the results of the 2020 election. During Mr. Zeldin’s tenure in the House of Representatives, he voted against clean water legislation at least a dozen times and clean air legislation at least half a dozen times, according to a scorecard from the League of Conservation Voters.
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Ms. Stefanik, who represents an upstate New York district in the House and is a member of the Republican leadership in the chamber, has been a vocal supporter of Mr. Trump. She emerged as a key ally during Mr. Trump’s first impeachment proceeding. She has minimal experience in foreign policy and national security.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Health and human services secretary
Announced
Mr. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and an heir to of one of America’s most storied Democratic families, has no medical or public health degree. He is a vocal vaccine skeptic and critic of the C.D.C., and has promoted theories that suggest H.I.V. is not the true cause of AIDS.
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The governor of North Dakota briefly sought the Republican presidential nomination before dropping out and supporting Trump. He has longstanding ties to fossil fuel companies and was a liaison between the Trump campaign and oil executives.
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A former House representative for Georgia, Mr. Collins serves in the Air Force Reserve as a chaplain and deployed to Iraq for five months in 2008. He was one of Mr. Trump’s most vocal defenders during his first impeachment inquiry.
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Mr. Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager, has emerged as a central economic adviser to Mr. Trump over the past year.
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Ms. Rollins, a conservative lawyer, is the chief executive of the America First Policy Institute, a prominent think tank that laid plans for a second Trump presidency. She was originally considered for chief of staff, but ultimately lost to Susie Wiles.
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Howard Lutnick
Commerce secretary and transition co-chair
Announced
Mr. Lutnick is a Wall Street executive. His companies are involved in nearly every sector of the U.S. economy, and he could face questions during the confirmation process about his finances and potential conflicts of interest.
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Mr. Duffy is a former Wisconsin congressman and Fox Business host. He rose to fame in the late 1990s on the MTV reality show “The Real World: Boston.” He also appeared on “Road Rules: All Stars,” where he met his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, who is now a Fox News host.
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Dr. Makary, a Johns Hopkins University surgeon and researcher, rose to prominence more than a decade ago as a critic of the medical establishment. He was largely opposed to vaccine mandates during the Covid pandemic.
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Mr. Wright is the chief executive of Liberty Energy, a Denver-based fracking company. He has no government experience and caught the attention of Mr. Trump in part through his appearances on Fox News.
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Linda McMahon
Education secretary and transition co-chair
Announced
Ms. McMahon is a major donor to Mr. Trump, a onetime Senate candidate from Connecticut and a former executive of a professional wrestling empire that she founded with her husband. She served in Mr. Trump’s first cabinet as the head of the Small Business Administration.
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Mr. Whitaker served as acting attorney general in the first Trump administration for about three months after Jeff Sessions stepped down and before William P. Barr was confirmed to succeed him. He does not have foreign policy experience.
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Scott Turner
Housing and urban development secretary
Announced
Mr. Turner, a former professional football player, was a state representative in Texas.
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Dr. Weldon is a former Florida congressman and a physician. While in Congress, he pushed the notion that thimerosal, a preservative compound in some vaccines, had caused an explosion of autism. This hypothesis has long been shown to be false, experts say.
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Dr. Nesheiwat is a Fox News medical contributor and a sister-in-law of Representative Michael Waltz of Florida, whom Trump has chosen to be his national security adviser.
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Russell T. Vought
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Announced
Mr. Vought was a leading figure in Project 2025, the effort by conservative organizations to build a governing blueprint for Mr. Trump. He served as director of O.M.B. in Mr. Trump’s first term.
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Mr. Miran served in the Treasury Department during Mr. Trump’s first term and currently works at a hedge fund.
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Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, has said that “there’s really no such thing as a Palestinian” and argued that all of the West Bank belonged to Israel. He is a Southern Baptist minister who has twice run unsuccessfully for president.
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Mr. Hoekstra, chairman of the Michigan Republican party and a former Michigan congressman, served as ambassador to the Netherlands during the first Trump administration. He is a native of the Netherlands.
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Mr. Blanche, a former prosecutor in Manhattan, oversaw Mr. Trump’s defense against multiple indictments.
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Mr. Sauer served as solicitor general of Missouri and represented Mr. Trump in his appeal to the Supreme Court regarding the issue of presidential immunity.
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During Mr. Trump’s first term, Mr. Greer served as chief of staff to Robert E. Lighthizer, the trade representative at the time.
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Dr. Bhattacharya is a Stanford physician and economist who co-authored an anti-lockdown treatise during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Mr. Phelan is a financier, a major Trump donor and the chairman of a private investment firm in Florida. He has no known military background.
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Jim O’Neill
Deputy secretary of health and human services
Announced
Mr. O’Neill is a former H.H.S. official and a former top aide to Peter Thiel, the billionaire Trump supporter. He was pushed by some members of the Silicon Valley elite for the department’s top position.
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Mr. Patel is a right-wing operative who has vowed to use the position to exact revenge on Mr. Trump’s adversaries.
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Mr. Kushner is a real estate executive and the father-in-law of Mr. Trump’s daughter, Ivanka. He served two years in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion, retaliating against a federal witness and lying to the Federal Election Commission. He was pardoned by Mr. Trump in 2020.
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Mr. Isaacman is a billionaire enterpreneur and an astronaut, who worked closely with Elon Musk on a SpaceX mission.
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Mr. Boehler served as the C.E.O. of U.S. International Development Finance Corporation during Mr. Trump’s first term. He was a college roommate of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law.
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Mr. Driscoll is an Army veteran who deployed to Iraq. He worked as an investment banker in Charlotte.
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Paul Atkins
Chair of Securities and Exchange Commission
Announced
Mr. Atkins is a former S.E.C. commissioner who worked at the agency for years before founding a consulting firm.
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Mr. Faulkender served as an assistant secretary for economic policy in the Treasury Department during Mr. Trump’s first term.
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Mr. Long was a congressman representing Missouri’s 7th district from 2011 to 2023.
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Ms. Loeffler is a former senator from Georgia and a top donor to Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign. In 2020, she played a prominent role in Mr. Trump’s effort to overturn the presidential election results.
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Frank Bisignano is the C.E.O. of Fiserv, a major financial technology company. He has held senior positions in investment banking and has been a significant contributor to Republican political campaigns.
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Mr. Perdue is a businessman and former senator from Georgia. He supported Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election result.
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Brandon Judd
Ambassador to Chile
Announced
Mr. Judd is a leader of the border patrol union and has made frequent appearances on Fox News about immigration issues.
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Ms. Dhillon was co-chairwoman of the election denying group Lawyers for Trump in 2020.
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Ms. Slater is a veteran tech and media policy adviser. She previously worked for Vice President-elect JD Vance and was an adviser at the National Economic Council during Mr. Trump’s first term.
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Mr. Johnson served as the ambassador to El Salvador during the first Trump administration.
Mr. Barrack is a private equity investor and friend of Mr. Trump. He served as an outside adviser to the White House during the first Trump administration. In 2022, he was acquitted on charges that he had worked as an agent of the United Arab Emirates and then lied to federal investigators about it.
Ms. Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host, has been engaged to Donald Trump Jr. for several years. She is the ex-wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a Democrat.
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Dan Bishop
Deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget
Announced
Mr. Bishop, an outgoing North Carolina congressman, lost the race in November to become North Carolina’s attorney general.
Mr. Stephens is an investment banker and billionaire who donated to Mr. Trump’s rivals before eventually supporting him in the 2024 race.
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Mr. Walker is a former N.F.L. star who in 2022 ran for a Senate seat in Georgia, losing to Raphael Warnock.
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Mr. Vance, a former venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, is a relative political newcomer. He rose to fame in 2016 after the publication of “Hillbilly Elegy,” his best-selling memoir about his family’s roots in Appalachia. He previously criticized Mr. Trump as “reprehensible,” but won Mr. Trump’s backing when he ran successfully for Senate in 2022 by embracing Mr. Trump’s politics and his lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
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Ms. Wiles, the political tactician who managed Mr. Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, has worked in Republican campaigns and administrations, at both the federal and state levels, since the Reagan era. She was the only campaign manager to survive an entire campaign working for Mr. Trump, and will be the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff.
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Mr. Blair will join the White House as deputy chief of staff for legislative, political and public affairs. He was the political director of the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee during the 2024 election cycle.
Mr. Budowich joined the Trump campaign after running a pro-Trump super PAC called MAGA Inc. He will be in charge of communications and personnel in the Trump White House.
Mr. Miller is an immigration hard-liner who was an influential aide during Mr. Trump’s first term. He traveled with Mr. Trump during the campaign and encouraged him to elevate immigration as the top issue in the closing weeks of the race. He returns to the White House as homeland security adviser and deputy chief of staff for policy.
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Mr. Scavino, one of the president-elect’s closest advisers, served as director of social media and deputy chief of staff for communications during the first Trump administration.
Mr. Homan, who served as a senior immigration official in Mr. Trump’s first administration, will manage Mr. Trump’s campaign promise of widespread deportations of undocumented immigrants and the tightening of measures that allow some of them to stay in the country legally. He has decades of experience in immigration enforcement.
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A former Green Beret and current Florida congressman, Mr. Waltz is widely regarded on Capitol Hill as a hawk on China and Iran. He served multiple combat tours in Afghanistan and opposed President Biden’s withdrawal of troops from the country.
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Mr. McGinley served as a cabinet secretary during Mr. Trump’s first term. The president-elect initially selected him for White House counsel, but 22 days later announced a switch to the government efficiency role. A vocal supporter of Mr. Trump, Mr. McGinley has been praised by allies who sought more aggressive lawyers than some who had worked for Mr. Trump in the past.
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Mr. Warrington is an election law specialist who served as general counsel to the 2024 Trump campaign.
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Mr. Cheung was Mr. Trump’s main campaign spokesman during the 2024 election cycle. He served in the first Trump White House as director of strategic response.
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Ms. Leavitt most recently served as Mr. Trump’s campaign press secretary. At 27, she will be the youngest person ever to assume the role.
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Mr. Scharf, an attorney for Mr. Trump, appeared before the Supreme Court on Mr. Trump’s behalf in the presidential immunity case. He ran and lost in this year’s Republican primary for Missouri attorney general.
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A former aide to Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, Mr. Gor co-founded a publishing company with Donald Trump Jr. that produces the president-elect’s books. He was also was the chief executive of a super PAC that spent tens of millions of dollars on Mr. Trump’s behalf.
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Mr. Musk — owner of SpaceX, Tesla and the social network X, among other companies — is the world’s richest person. Once a critic of Mr. Trump, he has risen to a position of extraordinary influence in the president-elect’s orbit.
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An entrepreneur and political newcomer, Mr. Ramaswamy became a fervent Trump acolyte after challenging him for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
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Mr. Carr, a veteran Republican regulator and current F.C.C. commissioner, has publicly agreed with the incoming administration’s promises to slash regulation, go after Big Tech and punish TV networks for political bias.
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Mr. Wong served as the deputy special representative for North Korea during the first Trump administration. “He helped negotiate my summit with North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un,” Mr. Trump said in a statement announcing the choice.
Sebastian Gorka
Deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism
Named
Mr. Gorka will be returning to the White House as a deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterrorism. He was forced out of the first Trump administration months after Mr. Trump took office in 2017.
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Mr. Witkoff, a real estate developer who has been a golf partner of Mr. Trump, was a donor to Mr. Trump’s political action committee and helped connect him to the entrepreneurs leading his cryptocurrency venture.
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Mr. Braid worked in legislative affairs during Mr. Trump’s first term. He has served as lead policy staffer in Vice President-elect JD Vance’s Senate office.
Mr. Brasseaux was a deputy political director for the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee in 2024.
Mr. Latcham has worked for Mr. Trump for the last eight years, most recently as senior deputy political director to the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee.
Mr. Haley was the director of policy and speechwriting for the Trump campaign.
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Mr. Hassett served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during Mr. Trump’s first administration.
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Keith Kellogg
Special envoy for Ukraine and Russia
Named
Mr. Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general, served as national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence in the first Trump administration.
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Massad Boulos
Senior adviser to the president for Arab and Middle Eastern affairs
Named
Mr. Boulos is a Lebanese American businessman and the father-in-law of Mr. Trump’s daughter, Tiffany.
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Mr. Navarro, who advised Mr. Trump on trade during his first term, spent four months in prison for refusing to comply with a congressional investigation related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. He was released from prison in July.
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Caleb Vitello
Acting director for immigration and customs enforcement
Named
Mr. Vitello spent over two decades at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Andrew Ferguson
Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
Named
Mr. Ferguson, a veteran Congressional aide and former Supreme Court clerk, joined the F.T.C. as a minority party member in the spring. He does not need to be reconfirmed.
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Ms. Habba served on Mr. Trump’s legal team during his civil fraud trial in New York, where a judge found that Mr. Trump had fraudulently inflated his wealth.
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David Sacks
White House A.I. and crypto czar
Named
One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent conservative investors, Mr. Sacks is a close friend of Elon Musk. This is a new position.
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Ms. Lake, a local TV news anchor turned election denier who lost races for Senate and governor in Arizona, has called journalists “monsters.”
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Mr. Nunes is a former member of Congress who had used his role as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to try to delegitimize the Trump-Russia investigation. He is currently the chief executive of the Trump Media & Technology Group, which runs the Truth Social platform.
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Mr. Chronister is in charge of the sheriff’s department in Hillsborough County, Fla. He withdrew from consideration on Dec. 3.
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Mr. Gaetz, a Florida Republican congressman who in 2023 successfully pushed to oust Kevin McCarthy from his post as speaker of the House, is a fierce ally of Mr. Trump. He was the subject of a federal sex trafficking investigation that concluded in 2023 when the Biden Justice Department declined to bring charges. He was under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for sexual misconduct until he resigned from the House on Nov. 13, 2024, after Mr. Trump announced his intention to nominate him. He announced he would withdraw from consideration for attorney general on Nov. 21.
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