Full Coverage: Trump’s Cabinet picks so far include billionaires, Washington outsiders and former rivals
Who will be on President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet? Picks of the businessman-turned-politician include billionaires, Washington outsiders and former rivals. Here’s what we know.
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Long before Ryan Zinke trained elite Navy Seals, served in Congress or became Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of Interior, he was a boy who swam and caught crayfish in the Whitefish River in his native Montana.
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Rick Perry loves to poke fun at California.
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Donald Trump promotes himself as a man divorced from party ideology, a president-elect just as open-minded to input from Al Gore as from Newt Gingrich.
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Rick Perry holds the Department of Energy in such low regard that in a presidential primary debate five years ago, he famously couldn’t even remember it was on the list of federal agencies he wanted to eliminate.
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Donald Trump announced Tuesday he will nominate oil tycoon Rex Tillerson to be secretary of State, setting up a potential confrontation with fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill who are uneasy with the Exxon Mobil chief executive’s close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday picked Iowa Gov.
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Donald Trump picked John F.
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Donald Trump expressed fondness during the presidential campaign for some of the big federal programs that serve the country’s most vulnerable, but whatever warmth he may feel does not seem to be shared by the people he is choosing to run them.
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Dwight Eisenhower surrounded himself in the White House with such wealthy individuals that his Cabinet was mockingly referred to as “nine millionaires and a plumber.”
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President-elect Donald Trump has chosen James N.
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President-elect Donald Trump has chosen billionaire financier Wilbur Ross, known as the king of bankruptcy for his investments in distressed properties, to serve as Commerce secretary.
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President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Steven Mnuchin, a wealthy Wall Street executive and Hollywood movie producer who served as his campaign finance chairman, to be the next Treasury secretary.
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President-elect Donald Trump plans to select House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.) to be his Health and Human Services secretary, two people familiar with the decision said late Monday.
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The election results were rolling in, and so were the phone calls for Donald Trump.
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President-elect Donald Trump named Cabinet picks Wednesday who would bring some gender and racial diversity to his administration, as well as a degree of political independence, but raised questions about his pledge to seek experience in choosing stewards of vast government bureaucracies.
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President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday picked South Carolina Gov.
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Tougher immigration judges. More prosecution of low-level immigration-law violations.
