UPDATE: President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Karoline Leavitt, his campaign press secretary, to serve as his White House press secretary. – Associated Press
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UPDATE: Donald Trump late Friday afternoon announced via Truth Social that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will join his administration as secretary of the interior and chairman of the newly formed National Energy Council.
In his post, Trump said the new council “will consist of all Departments and Agencies involved in the permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, transportation, of ALL forms of American Energy. This Council will oversee the path to U.S. ENERGY DOMINANCE by cutting red tape, enhancing private sector investments across all sectors of the Economy, and by focusing on INNOVATION over longstanding, but totally unnecessary, regulation.”
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President-elect Donald Trump has wasted little time in building his cabinet and White House staff for his second term.
Thus far, he has made 24 nominations and selections to serve in his cabinet and in the Trump White House for his second term. Cabinet selections require Senate confirmation.
His choices as of Friday morning:
- White House chief of staff: Susie Wiles
- Secretary of State: Marco Rubio
- Attorney General: Matt Gaetz
- Deputy Attorney General: Todd Blanche
- HHS Secretary: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- U.N. Ambassador: Elise Stefanik
- “Border Czar”: Tom Homan
- Defense Secretary: Pete Hegseth
- Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Doug Collins
- National Security Adviser: Michael Waltz
- White House Counsel: William McGinley
- Solicitor General: Dean John Sauer
- Secretary of Homeland Security: Kristi Noem
- CIA Director: John Ratcliffe
- Director of National Intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard
- EPA Administrator: Lee Zeldin
- U.S. Ambassador to Israel: Mike Huckabee
- U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York: Jay Clayton
- Department of Government Efficiency: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy
- Deputy Chief of Staff: Dan Scavino
- Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Adviser: Stephen Miller
- Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political and Public Affairs: James Blair
- Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Personnel: Taylor Budowich
- Presidential Personnel Office Head: Sergio Gor
Leading candidates to be nominated for treasury secretary, news outlets reported, are hedge fund founder Scott Bessent and Robert Lighthizer, a former U.S. trade representative in Trump’s first administration. CBS News reported that three officials who worked for Trump in his first term — Michael Anton, Joel Rayburn and Brian Hook — are a part of Trump’s national security transition team.
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