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President Donald Trump’s administration brings new leadership to every federal agency — a fraction of the nearly 4,000 political hires he’ll make in the Oval Office.
So who’s coming? Who’s going? Federal News Radio has compiled an at-a-glance “cheat sheet” of key executive hires as they happen. The names listed here reflect the information reported by the Trump administration and may be subject to change.
Agriculture Department
Nominee: Sonny Perdue
Former: Tom Vilsack
Budget: $25 billion (FY 2016)
Air Force Secretary
Nominee: Heather Wilson
Central Intelligence Agency
Current: Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.)
Former: John Brennan
Budget: $15 billion (FY 2014)
President Donald Trump announced Feb. 2 that he intends to nominate Gina Haspel to serve as deputy CIA director
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Nominee: Seema Verma, President, CEO and founder of SVC, Inc.
Former: Andy Slavitt
Budget: $970.8 billion (FY 2016)
Commerce Department
Nominee: Wilbur Ross, billionaire investor
Former: Penny Pritzker
Budget: $9.8 billion (FY 2016)
Defense Department
Current: Retired Gen. James Mattis
Former: Ash Carter
Budget: $585 billion (FY 2016)
Education Department
Current: Betty DeVos
Former: John B. King Jr.
Budget: $77.4 billion
Energy Department
Nominee: Rick Perry, former governor of Texas
Former: Ernest Moniz
Budget: $27.9 billion (FY 2015)
Environmental Protection Agency
Current: Scott Pruitt
Former: Regina McCarthy
Budget: $8.1 billion
Health and Human Services Department
Nominee: Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), chairman, House Budget Committee
Former: Sylvia Burwell
Budget: $1.05 trillion (FY 2015)
Homeland Security Department
Current: Retired Gen. John Kelly
Former: Jeh Johnson
Budget: $69.4 billion (FY 2016)
President Donald Trump announced Jan. 30 that he intends to nominate Elaine C. Duke to serve as deputy secretary
Housing and Urban Development Department
Nominee: Ben Carson
Former: Julian Castro
Budget: $49.3 billion
Interior Department
Nominee: Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.)
Former: Sally Jewell
Budget: $13.2 billion (FY 2016)
Justice Department
Confirmed: Jeff Sessions
Former: Loretta Lynch
Budget: $28.7 billion (FY 2016)
Labor Department
Nominee: Alexander Acosta
Former: Thomas Perez
Budget: $13.2 billion (FY 2016)
Navy Secretary
Nominee: Philip Bilden
National Security Adviser
Current: Retired Gen. Michael Flynn
Micheal Flynn resigned from his national security adviser post on Feb. 13. Retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg has been named acting national security adviser.
Former: Susan Rice
Office of Management and Budget
Current: Mick Mulvaney
Former: Shaun Donovan
Budget: $91.75 million (FY 2015)
Securities and Exchange Commission
The SEC has five presidentially appointed commissioners who serve for a five-year term. There are currently two vacancies.
Nominee(s): Jay Clayton
Current: Mary Jo White, Kara Stein, Michael Piowar
Small Business Administration
Nominee: Linda McMahon, former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment
Former: Maria Contreras-Sweet
Budget: $710 million (FY 2015)
Special Advisor to the President on Regulatory Reform
Current: Carl Icahn
State Department
Current: Rex Tillerson, CEO, Exxon Mobil Corporation
Former: John Kerry
Budget: $50.3 billion (FY 2016)
Transportation Department
Current: Elaine Chao, former Labor Secretary
Former: Anthony Foxx
Budget: $77.2 billion (FY 2014)
Treasury Department
Current: Steven Mnuchin
Former: Jack Lew
Budget: $14 billion (FY 2014)
United Nations Ambassador
Current: Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina
Former: Samantha Power
U.S. Trade Representative
Nominee: Robert Lighthizer
Former: Michael Froman
Veterans Affairs Department
Current: David Shulkin
Former: Bob McDonald
Budget: $167 billion (FY 2016)
Agency positions yet to be filled:
- GAO
- GSA
- NASA
- National Science Foundation
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- OPM
- Social Security Administration
- USAID
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