Cabinet Picks for President Trump
Vice President
J.D. Vance
born-James Donald Bowman, was in the U.S. Marine Corps and was deployed to Iraq to serve in the Iraq War.
A lawyer and venture capitalist, he founded “Our Ohio Renewal,” a nonprofit organization to help disadvantaged children and drug addiction.
He was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2022, representing Ohio. He made efforts to stop the factual widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. He butted heads with several fellow Republicans, including U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney and GOP minority leader Mitch McConnell.
Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken voiced anger at Vance for suggesting an investigation of journalist Robert Kagan in that Kagan wrote an opinion that Trump would inevitably become a dictator.
Secratary of State
Marco Rubio
Rubio, born May 28, 1971, in Miami and is the son of Cuban immigrants. He became a U.S. senator from Florida and has held that seat since 2011. He still calls the city of Mami his home.
He noted in 2010 then-President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress threatened the nation’s economy by supporting disastrous domestic spending, tax and health care policies.
Rubio now often discusses foreign military and economic threats, particularly China. He warns that China, Iran, North Korea and Russia are increasingly partnering against the United States.
Marco, who had been raised Roman Cahtloic, moved with his parents to Las Vegas and was baptized as a Morman, but several years later he rejoined the Catholic Chruch. In 1985 the Rubios returned to Florida.
After graduating from the University of Flortida in 1993, Rubio studied law at the University of Miami. He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in a special election in 1999 and from 2000 to 2008, during which time he was majority leader (2003–06) and also speaker (2006–08).
Rubio opposes gun control, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), same-sex marriage, cliamte-change curbs and and other efforts backed by the Democratic Party.
In foreign relations, he typically argued for an interventionist policy, and he was against efforts to normalize relations with Cuba.
Secretary of the Treasury
Scott Bessent
is an American investor and hedge fund manager. Bessent earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale University in 1984. He was chairman of the 1984 Yale Alumni Fund and assistant to the director of athletics. Bessent founded Key Square Group in 2015 with Michael Germino, who had been the global head of capital markets at SFM.
In article in fall 2022 commemorating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Bessent wrote “President Trump’s most enduring achievement may have been to wake the United States and the world to the growing dangers of an ever-more-antagonistic China.
In response, Abe’s greatest foreign policy achievement was taking this awakening and developing a multilateral solution for containment. Bessent has praised Trump’s proposal to implement broad tariffs.
In a Fox News op-ed in November 2024, Bessent wrote that the “U.S. opened its markets to the world, but China’s resulting economic growth has only cemented the hold of a despotic regime” and argued tariffs “are a means to finally stand up for Americans”.
Secretary of the
Secretary of Defense
Pete Hegseth
is an American television presenter, author, and a political commentator for Fox News since 2014.
He graduated from Princeton in 2003, joined the Army National Guard as an officer and served at Guantánamo Bay as as the infantry platoon leader and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal.
He than was deployed to Bagddad and Samarra in Iraq as a cicil-military operations officer and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Combat Infatryman Badge, and a second Army Commendation Medal.
In Afghanstan he trained security forces. Hegseth was promoted to the rank of major and left active duty to be assigned to the Army Indivudal Ready Reserve.
Attorney General
Pam Bondi
Bondi received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in University of Florida in 1987 and a Juris Docotr from the Stenson Unitveristy College of Law in 1990.she served as Florida attoirney genreal from 2011 to 2019, the first woman elected to the office.
Bondi was a prosecutor and spokeswoman in Hillsborough COnuty, FLorida, where she was an assistant state attorney. Bondi defended Amendemnt 2, a 2008 amendment to the Florida Constitution banning same-sex marriage, against legal challenges on behalf of the state. These actions did not reflect her opinions on same-sex marriage, but were out of respect for the constitution.
In nominating her to be U.S. attorney general, Trump said that, as Florida’s attorney general, she had “worked to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs, and reduce the tragedy of Fentanyl Overdose Deaths, which have destroyed many families across our Country,” and that she had done “an incredible job”.
Secretary of Interior
Doug Burgum
Douglas James Burgum (born August 1, 1956) is an American businessman and politician who served from 2016 to 2024 as the 33rd governor of North Dakota. graduating from North Dakota State University in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in university studies and earning an MBA from Stanford University two years later,
During both terms, North Dakota maintained a robust fossil fuel industry.
But he planned using carbon capture and storage technology to capture and sequester carbon dioxide in the state’s geological formations and by using carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery and via agricultural practices that sequester carbon in soil.The 2021 announcement of the goal sparked $25 billion in private sector investment, according to remarks he made at the annual meeting of the North Dakota petroleum council.
During the 2023 legislative session, he signed a bill that exempts members of the North Dakota National Guard and reserve from paying income tax, and another that provided over $500 million in tax relief.
In January 2023, Burgum and other North Dakota officials threatened to sue Minnesota over a law that would require the state’s electricity to come from sources that do not emit carbon dioxide.[53] Minnesota governor Tim Walz signed the bill on February 7, 2023.
In October 2023, Burgum condemned Hamas‘s attack on Israel and noted that 84 North Dakotans who were on a church tour were stranded in Bethlehem as the fighting began.
Burgum expressed support for the U.S. Supreme Court‘s Dobbs decision. His support derived from his position that abortion restrictions should be left to states.
Burgum is said to be the Trump campaign’s main advisor on energy policy. Reportedly, Trump’s primary directive to Burgum as interior secretary has been to “drill” at a massive scale.
Secretary of Agricultre
Brooke Leslie Rollins
Brooke Rollins, born April 10, 1972, is an American attorney and policy advisor currently announced as the presumptive nominee for United States secretary of agriculture in President Donald Trump‘s administration.
Rollins previously served as deputy general counsel, ethics advisor, and policy director to Texas governor Rick Perry. She is an advocate of criminal justice reform. Rollins was the president and CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, an Austin-based conservative think tank, from 2003 through 2018. During her tenure at TPPF, the think tank grew from having a staff of three to a staff of 100.
Rollins oversaw the White House Office of American Innovation under President Donald Trump from 2018 until 2020. She also served as the acting director of the United States Domestic Policy Council under President Trump. Since the end of the Trump administration, Rollins served as the president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute.
Rollins attended Texas A&M University, where she graduated cum laude with a B.S. in agricultural development in 1994. Rollins earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law, graduating with honors.
In 2011, Texas Monthly named Rollins one of the 25 most powerful Texans.
Rollins struck an optimistic tone on the country’s future, saying “this is America and we have been through difficult times before. We are a nation of doers and believers and dreamers, and we are a nation where if anybody tells us to step back, we step three feet forward.
Rollins is a leader of the Save America Coalition, launched in 2021 to oppose Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion economic proposal.
Secretary of Commerce
Howard William Lutnick
Lutnick, born into a Jewish family on July 14, 1961 in Jericho, New York, on Long Island, and is the son of the late Solomon Lutnick, a history professor at Queens College, and the late Jane Lutnick, a painter and sculptor. He is an American businessman, who succeeded Bernard Gerald Cantor as the head of Cantor Fitzgerald. Lutnick is the chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Group.
After losing 658 employees, including his brother, in the September 11 attacks, Lutnick also survived the subsequent collapse of the towers on the ground, and has since become known for his charity efforts through the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, which helps to aid families of victims of the attacks and natural disasters.
Lutnick entered Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania and graduated with a degree in economics.
Lutnick took the video platform Rumble public through a SPAC deal. He was also involved in the SPAC merger of earth observation company Satellogic in January 2022, where former US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin invested $150 million.
When Hurricane Sandy hit New York and New Jersey in October 2012, Lutnick pledged $10 million to aid families who were severely affected by the storm.
Lutnick spoke at a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, where he advocated for the strength of economy of the United States in 1900, crediting the lack of income tax and high tariff policies active at the time, saying “We had no income tax, and all we had was tariffs”. Lutnick is a proponent of broad tariffs.
Lutnick has accused China of being the source of the fentanyl crisis in the United States, saying that “China is attacking America from its guts”.