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Trump's Cabinet tracker: Here's who is among the White House appointments so far

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : Trump has lauded him as having "played a major role in our election victory" in 2024.
58% : She joined the Republican Party earlier this year, endorsed Trump and joined his presidential transition team.
58% : "Mike has been a great public servant, Governor, and Leader in Faith for many years," Trump wrote in a statement.
54% : In a statement, Trump said Zeldin "will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, including the cleanest air and water on the planet.
46% : Trump has given her a fitting nickname: "The Ice Maiden.
45% : Trump has nominated Fox News host and veteran Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense, the nation's largest federal agency overseeing all branches of the military, an $850 billion annual budget and roughly 3 million service members and personnel.
45% : Homan, who served under Trump in his first administration as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was among the architects of the former president's "zero tolerance" anti-immigration agenda and the maligned practice of separate families who arrive at the US-Mexico border.
45% : Since Trump left office in 2021, Miller has served as the president of America First Legal, an organization made up of former Trump advisers aimed at challenging the Biden administration, media companies and universities, among other targets of right-wing groups.
45% : Fresh off a stint as political director for the Republican National Committee and the Trump 2024 campaign, Blair to follow Trump to the White House for his next term.
40% : His key role will be liaising between the White House and the Justice Department, with Trump expected to break from precedent and wipe out the agency's independence to function more like a law enforcement arm of the White House.
36% : If confirmed, she would represent American interests at the UN as Trump vows to end the war waged by Russia against Ukraine.
36% : Trump has tapped oil fracking CEO Chris Wright to serve as Secretary of Energy.
36% : Shortly after Trump won the election, Blair insisted during an interview on CNN that the campaign's virulently anti-trans messaging "didn't demonize the transgender community," arguing that the ads were instead "about misplaced priorities.
33% : "Trump has picked Scharf, yet another one of his personal attorneys who defended the former president's "immunity" argument, to serve as the White House staff secretary in his upcoming administration.
32% : Trump notably referenced that case in his announcement, saying that his Supreme Court victory "was key to defeating the unConstitutional campaign of Lawfare against me and the entire MAGA Movement.
29% : Blanche defended Trump in courtrooms in Florida, Washington DC and New York, where the 50-year-old was the lead attorney in Trump's hush money trial, in which the former president was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
28% : Sauer -- the attorney who managed to convince the Supreme Court that Trump is partially immune from criminal prosecution -- is Trump's choice for solicitor general, the fourth-highest official in the Justice Department.
26% : Trump says he will nominate his own criminal defense attorney, Todd Blanche, to the second-highest position in the Justice Department.
21% : Budowich railed against the investigation as "bogus," and claimed, without evidence, that the system had been "weaponized" against Trump.
15% : Leavitt continues to claim, incorrectly, that the 2020 election was "stolen" from Trump, and posted a video online in 2022 that showed her firing a gun at a shooting range, with the mocking caption for President Joe Biden to "come and take it.
12% : Trump also nominated Emil Bove, another one of Trump's criminal defense attorneys, as principal deputy attorney general.

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