President-elect Donald Trump attended the appointment Friday night
In just over an hour on Friday night, the President was elected Donald Trump announced nine new appointment on his social media page Truth Social—incl Russell Voughta longtime ally and key figure in Project 2025 who will serve as the incoming head of the Office of Management and Budget.
His appointment on Friday comes as the former president has moved with unprecedented speed in forming his cabinet and staff. EQUAL Caitlin Dewey wrote because Vanity fair Earlier this week, Trump “was challenging virtually every norm of the presidential transition process, from coordination with federal agencies to background checks of candidates for executive positions.” senior management”.
According to report from Washington PostHis transition teams are running the show from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, and they “have yet to set foot in a federal office.” Trump also has, according to Parcelhas not cooperated with the General Services Administration, the agency responsible for transferring control of hundreds of agencies, because the president-elect has not made mandatory commitments to follow ethics rules ( such as personal conflicts of interest).
In addition to Trump’s nomination to the budget office, his picks Friday night span roles in finance, health care, labor and national security.
Trump appoints billionaire to manage hedge fund Scott Bessent to be his next treasury secretary. Bessent, who founded the hedge fund Key Square Capital Management and has worked for Soros Fund Management since 1991, supports extending provisions of Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—expected cost trillions of dollars over 10 years. decades since it passed, according to to AP based on various economic analyses.
Representative of the United States House of Representatives Lori Chavez-DeRemera first-term Republican from Oregon who almost lost Her seat this month goes to the Democrats Janelle Bynumused to be tap lightly as the next secretary of the Department of Labor. A moderate from a swing district that includes parts of Portland, Chavez-DeRemer “is one of the few House Republicans to support big pro-union legislation, and she has divided endorsement of his district union” with Bynum, according to New York Times. team president Sean O’Brien called on Trump to choose Oregon’s representative, according to to Politics.
Trump named former Texas state representative and professional football player Scott Turner Leader of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Currently, Turner is president of the Center for Educational Opportunity at the America First Policy Institute, a think tank founded by former Trump staffers. During the president-elect’s first term in 2019, Turner headed a council tasked with turning around struggling communities. “This effort has won bipartisan praise,” NPR report“although critics say wealthy investors with tax breaks will receive more benefits than local residents.”
Trump nominated surgeon and writer Martin Makary to oversee the Food and Drug Administration, the world’s most influential drug regulatory agency. A doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Makary will work tight with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—of the president-elect picked to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. each female timeMakary has “supported the notion that thimerosal, a preservative once widely used in vaccines, has caused an explosion in autism cases worldwide” although health officials deny “it is suggested that the research shows any link between thimerosal and autism.”
