The Cabinet

President

Donald J. Trump

Vice President

Senator JD Vance

Secretary of State

Senator Marco Rubio
R-FL

Rubio is a three-term senator from Florida, elected in 2010. Before being elected to the Senate, Rubio served as a city commissioner in West Miami and as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. In 2016, Rubio unsuccessfully ran against President Trump for the Republican Party presidential nomination.

Secretary of the Treasury

Scott Bessent
Hedge Fund Founder, Economic Advisor, Trump Vance 2024

Bessent is the founder of the hedge fund Key Square Capital Management, and he has done work for businessman, investor and philanthropist George Soros. Bessent Served as the economic advisor for Trump’s 2024 campaign, and if approved, would be the first openly gay Treasury secretary.

Secretary of Defense

Pete Hegseth
Fox News Commentator

Hegseth is a decorated veteran, having served as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard, with deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay. He later served as a Fox News host and CEO for Concerned Veterans for America, a veterans advocacy organization.

Attorney General – nominee

Pam Bondi
Former Attorney General of Florida

Bondi is an attorney and the first women elected as attorney general of Florida, serving from 2011 to 2019. She endorsed President Trump in 2016 and served on his first transition team. A former chairwoman for the America First Policy Institute, she spent time as a lobbyist and was on Trump’s legal team during his first impeachment trial.

Secretary of Health and Human Services – nominee

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Former Presidential Candidate, Chairman of Children’s Health Defense

Kennedy ran as a third-party candidate in the 2024 presidential election before dropping out and endorsing President Trump. He is the founder, chairman, and attorney for Children’s Health Defense, an organization that campaigns to address childhood chronic disease and toxic exposures and is the former chairman of Waterkeeper Alliance, a clean water advocacy group.

Secretary of Interior (nominee) and Chairman, National Energy Council

Governor Doug Burgum
Governor of North Dakota

Burgum has been the governor of North Dakota since 2016. He ran for the Republican presidential nomination but ended his campaign in December 2023 and became an energy advisor to the Trump campaign. After selling his software company in 2001, Burgum started a venture fund investing in clean energy technologies.

Secretary of Agriculture – nominee

Brooke Rollins
CEO and President of the America First Policy Institute

Rollins is CEO and president of the America First Policy Institute, a nonprofit research group. She served as Domestic Policy advisor and director of the Office of American Innovation in President Trump’s first Administration. Previously, Rollins was a policy director for Texas Governor Rick Perry and ran the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Secretary of Commerce – nominee

Howard Lutnick
Co-chair, Trump Transition, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald

Lutnick has supported Trump on the campaign and is co-chairing Trump’s transition team. Since 1983, Lutnick has served as chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald, a large Wall Street firm that was one of the most affected companies during the 9/11 attack. Lutnick is also chairman and CEO of global brokerage and financial technology company BGC Group, Inc., and chairman of Newmark Group, Inc., a global commercial real estate services firm.

Secretary of Labor – nominee

Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer
Former House R -Oregon’s 5th District

Rep. Chavez-DeRemer is the first Republican woman to represent Oregon in the House of Representatives, serving on term from 2022 to 2024. Previously, she was a city council member and mayor of Happy Valley, Oregon.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development – nominee

Texas Representative Scott Turner
Former Texas State Representative and Executive Director of Trump’s Opportunity and Revitalization Council

Turner is a businessman and motivational speaker. He previously served as the executive director of the White House Office of Opportunity and Revitalization Council in the first Trump administration. Prior to joining the administration, he served in the Texas state legislature. Turner played nine seasons of professional football in the National Football League.  

Secretary of Transportation – nominee

Representative Sean Duffy
Former Representative, R WI 7

Duffy served in the US House of Representatives representing Wisconsin’s 7th district from 2011 to 2019, following roles as a local district attorney and special prosecutor. He is a Fox News contributor and lobbyist, as well as a former reality television star.

Secretary of Energy – nominee

Chris Wright
Founder and CEO, Liberty Energy

Wright is the founder, CEO, and chairman of the Board of Liberty Energy, a Denver-based oil and gas company. He serves on the boards of numerous nonprofit organizations, including ACE Scholarships, and is a founding board member of Bettering Human Lives.

Secretary of Education – nominee

Linda McMahon
Trump Transition Co-chair, former Administrator, Small Business Administration, and former CEO of Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

McMahon served as the 25th administrator of the Small Business Administration during President Trump’s first term. After her time in Trump’s White House, McMahon chaired the America First Action Super PAC and helped found the America First Policy Institute. McMahon was co-founder, president and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. She is currently serving as co-chair of the Trump transition.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs – nominee

Former Representative Doug Collins
Representing Georgia’s 9th House District  

Collins served in the US House of Representatives for Georgia’s 9th Congressional District from 2013 to 2019. Previously he served in the Georgia state legislature and is a chaplain in the US Air Force Reserve. He also served in the Navy and is a veteran of the Iraq war. Collins provided legal counsel to President Trump and after the president left office.

Secretary of Homeland Security

Governor Kristi Noem
Governor of South Dakota

Noem was the first female governor of South Dakota, winning election in 2018 and re-election in 2022. After serving in the South Dakota legislature, Governor Kristi Noem was elected to serve as South Dakota’s lone member of the US House of Representatives in 2010.

White House Chief of Staff

Susie Wiles
Trump Campaign Co-Campaign Manager

Wiles will be the first ever female White House chief of staff. After serving as Trump’s 2016 chief campaign strategist in Florida, Wiles played a key role in Governor Ron DeSantis’ 2018 gubernatorial campaign. In 2021, Wiles became CEO of Trump’s Save America PAC before becoming the co-campaign manager of Trump’s 2024 campaign.

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency – nominee

Former Representative Lee Zeldin
Former Representative, New York 1st District

Zeldin was elected to the United States Congress in 2014 to represent New York’s 1st District. Zeldin unsuccessfully ran for governor of New York in 2022 and was a frequent Fox commentator after he left office in 2023.

Administrator of the Small Business Administration – nominee

Kelly Loeffler
Co-chair of the Presidential Inaugural Committee| Former Senator, GA | Former CEO of Bakkt | Founder and Chairwoman of Greater Georgia

As a businesswoman, Loeffler spent time holding senior roles at Intercontinental Exchange before becoming the Founding CEO of Bakkt, a cryptocurrency company. Loeffler served as a senator for Georgia from 2020 to 2021 and founder and chair of Greater Georgia, a nonprofit voter mobilization organization.

Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Russell Vought
Former Director of Office of the Management and Budget

Vought was the director of the Office of Management and Budget during the first Trump administration. After the Trump administration, he founded the Center for Renewing America, a conservative think tank. He is closely tied with Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint put forth by the Heritage Foundation. 

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Former Representative John Ratcliffe
Former Trump Director of National Intelligence and former Representative of Texas’ 4th District

Ratcliffe is a former congressman representing Texas’ 4th district, who later served as Trump’s director of National Intelligence during his first Administration. Before his time in Congress, Ratcliffe held notable positions in the George W. Bush administration and was a founding partner of a firm providing strategic legal advice on national and international security issues.

Director of National Intelligence – nominee

Former Representative Tulsi Gabbard
Former Representative, D HI-2

Gabbard, a former Representative from Hawaii and Army reservist, was a 2020 candidate in the Democratic presidential primary. From 2013 to 2016 Gabbard served as the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. She declared as an independent in 2022 and endorsed Trump’s 2024 presidential race.

US Trade Representative for the Office of the US Trade Representative – nominee

Jamieson Greer
Former Chief of Staff, USTR

Greer was the chief of staff to Robert Lighthizer, the Trade representative during Trump’s first administration. Currently a partner at King & Spalding, Greer has legal experience with trade remedies, policy, and negotiation.

Ambassador to United Nations – nominee

Representative Elise Stefanik
Chair, House Republican Conference, Representing NY-21

Stefanik, a New York Congresswoman since 2015, is a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, the Committee on Education and Labor, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Stefanik also served in the White House on President George W. Bush’s Domestic Policy Council Staff and in the chief of staff’s office.