Trump’s Cabinet Picks Prepare for Senate Confirmation Hearings

Then-US President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting in 2020.Photographer: Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg

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By Alicia Diaz

January 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM UTC

Updated on

January 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM UTC

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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees will begin testifying before the US Senate next week as Republicans rush to install the new cabinet soon after the Jan. 20 inauguration.

Several of Trump’s picks have caused consternation on Capitol Hill, perhaps none more so than former Fox News host Pete Hegseth to run the Pentagon and vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.