Trump Cabinet confirmation status: Which nominees have been confirmed?
By Parker Kaufmann, Humera Lodhi, Christopher L. Keller and Sara Burnett
Last updated May 7, 2025, 6:31 PM
Donald Trump has chosen the people he wants in high-level positions during his second presidency. The nominees must be confirmed by the Senate. These are his picks for Cabinet-level posts, including some positions that have been part of the Cabinet in recent administrations.
21 confirmed out of 22 announced
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Prior Trump Administration
Pam Bondi
Attorney General
Doug Collins
Veterans Affairs
Tulsi Gabbard
National Intelligence
Jamieson Greer
Trade Representative
Kristi Noem
Homeland Security
Brooke L. Rollins
Agriculture
Marco Rubio
Secretary of State
Withdrawn
Matt Gaetz
Attorney General
Elise Stefanik
United Nations
A closer look at Trump’s selections:
Treasury Secretary
Scott Bessent
Confirmed Jan 27, 2025
68 senate votes
An advocate for deficit reduction, has said he decided to join Trump’s campaign in part to attack the mounting U.S. national debt, including by slashing government programs and other spending.
Former money manager for George Soros, a big Democratic donor, founded the hedge fund Key Square Capital Management.
Would be the nation’s first openly gay treasury secretary.
Attorney General
Pam Bondi
Confirmed Feb 4, 2025
54 senate votes
Florida’s first female attorney general, serving from 2011 to 2019.
On Trump’s legal team during his first Senate impeachment trial in 2020 and has been critical of the criminal cases against him.
Served with the America First Policy Institute, a Trump-allied group that has helped lay the groundwork for his second administration.
Interior Secretary
Doug Burgum
Confirmed Jan 30, 2025
79 senate votes
Two-term governor of North Dakota and wealthy software executive.
Ran for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination but dropped out and endorsed Trump, campaigning on his behalf for months.
Was on Trump's short list for vice president.
Labor Secretary
Lori Chavez-DeRemer
Confirmed Mar 10, 2025
67 senate votes
Republican U.S. House member from Oregon narrowly lost her reelection bid in November but had received strong backing from union members in her district.
Endorsed legislation that would allow more workers to conduct organizing campaigns, penalize companies that violate workers’ rights and weaken “right-to-work” laws.
Veterans Affairs Secretary
Doug Collins
Confirmed Feb 4, 2025
77 senate votes
Transportation Secretary
Sean Duffy
Confirmed Jan 28, 2025
77 senate votes
A former U.S. House member from Wisconsin and Fox Business host who was one of Trump’s most visible defenders on cable news.
Served in the House for nearly nine years, sitting on the Financial Services Committee and chairing the subcommittee on insurance and housing.
Before entering politics, he was a reality TV star on MTV, where he met his wife, “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy.
Director of National Intelligence
Tulsi Gabbard
Confirmed Feb 12, 2025
52 senate votes
Former Democratic House member from Hawaii.
Sought 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and left the party in 2022.
Served in the Army National Guard for more than two decades and deployed to Iraq and Kuwait.
Has been accused of echoing Russian propaganda.
Attorney General
Matt Gaetz
Withdrew from consideration amid fallout over a federal sex trafficking investigation that cast doubt on his ability to be confirmed by the Senate.
Represented much of the Florida Panhandle in Congress from 2017 to 2024.
United States Trade Representative
Jamieson Greer
Confirmed Feb 26, 2025
56 senate votes
International trade attorney and partner at King & Spalding, a Washington law firm.
Previously was chief of staff to Robert Lighthizer, who was the trade representative in Trump’s first term.
Defense Secretary
Pete Hegseth
Confirmed Jan 24, 2025
51 senate votes
Former co-host of Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends Weekend” and contributor with the network since 2014.
Served in the Army National Guard from 2002 to 2021, deploying to Iraq in 2005 and Afghanistan in 2011 and earning two Bronze Stars but lacks senior military and national security experience.
Confirmation prospects came into question after a woman told police that Hegseth sexually assaulted her in 2017, according to a detailed investigative report recently made public.
Reports have surfaced about his drinking, and questions have been raised about his comments that women should not serve in combat.
Health and Human Services Secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Confirmed Feb 13, 2025
52 senate votes
Ran for president as a Democrat, then as an independent, then endorsed Trump.
Son of Democratic icon Robert Kennedy.
Vocal skeptic of vaccines, he has long advanced the debunked idea that vaccines cause autism.
Administrator of the Small Business Administration
Kelly Loeffler
Confirmed Feb 19, 2025
52 senate votes
Former Georgia senator and a top donor to Trump.
Was chief executive of Bakkt, a cryptocurrency trading platform.
Co-chair of Trump's inaugural committee.
Commerce Secretary
Howard Lutnick
Confirmed Feb 18, 2025
51 senate votes
A billionaire who heads the brokerage and investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and is a cryptocurrency enthusiast.
Co-chair of Trump’s transition operation, charged along with Linda McMahon with helping the president-elect fill key jobs in his second administration.
Education Secretary
Linda McMahon
Confirmed Mar 3, 2025
51 senate votes
Billionaire professional wrestling mogul. Led the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019 in Trump’s first term.
Twice ran unsuccessfully in Connecticut as a GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Has expressed support for charter schools and school choice.
Co-chair of Trump’s transition operation, charged along with Howard Lutnick with helping the president-elect fill key jobs in his second administration.
Homeland Security Secretary
Kristi Noem
Confirmed Jan 25, 2025
59 senate votes
Two-term governor of South Dakota.
Has supported Trump's hard-line immigration agenda, sending South Dakota troops to the border with Mexico to discourage migrants from entering the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency Director
John Ratcliffe
Confirmed Jan 23, 2025
74 senate votes
Former congressman from Texas.
Served as director of national intelligence for the final months of Trump’s first term, leading the U.S. government’s spy agencies during the coronavirus pandemic.
Agriculture Secretary
Brooke L. Rollins
Confirmed Feb 13, 2025
72 senate votes
President and CEO of the America First Policy Institute, a group helping lay the groundwork for Trump’s second administration.
Texas attorney who was Trump’s domestic policy adviser and director of his office of American innovation during his first term.
Secretary of State
Marco Rubio
Confirmed Jan 20, 2025
99 senate votes
Former GOP senator from Florida. Was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Ran unsuccessfully against Trump for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.
Noted hawk on China, Cuba and Iran.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Elise Stefanik
Congresswoman from New York who served as House Republican Conference Chair, the third-highest position in House leadership.
One of Trump’s most loyal allies in the House.
Was among those discussed as a potential Trump running mate.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary
Scott Turner
Confirmed Feb 5, 2025
55 senate votes
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Russell Vought
Confirmed Feb 6, 2025
53 senate votes
Held the position during Trump’s first presidency.
Was closely involved with Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for Trump’s second term that Trump tried to distance himself from during the campaign.
Founded the Center for Renewing America, a think tank whose mission is to “renew a consensus of America as a nation under God.”
Ambassador to the United Nations
Mike Waltz
Served as national security adviser from the start of Trump's second term until his departure from the role on May 1. Came under scrutiny during his time as national security adviser for discussing military plans in a Signal chat that included a journalist.
Three-term GOP congressman from east-central Florida, he was the first Green Beret elected to the U.S. House.
Served as chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on readiness and a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Considered hawkish on China, and called for a U.S. boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to its involvement in the origin of COVID-19 and its ongoing mistreatment of the minority Muslim Uighur population.
Energy Secretary
Chris Wright
Confirmed Feb 3, 2025
59 senate votes
CEO of Denver-based Liberty Energy.
Vocal advocate of oil and gas development, including fracking — a key piece of Trump’s goal to achieve U.S. “energy dominance” in the global market.
One of the industry’s loudest voices against efforts to fight climate change.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
Lee Zeldin
Confirmed Jan 29, 2025
56 senate votes
Mounted a failed bid for governor of New York in 2022.
He left Congress in January 2023 and was a surprising pick for the role.
His public appearances both in his own campaigns and on behalf of Trump often had him speaking about issues such as the military, national security, antisemitism, U.S.-Israel relations, immigration and crime.
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