Who is in Donald Trump’s cabinet?

On Tuesday, November 5, the Republican candidate won 312 electoral votes in the 2024 election against Ms. Harris’ 226. He needs 270 votes to take the presidency, who will officially become president on January 20.

Reaction to Mr Trump’s win has been mixed. While some, including X (formerly Twitter) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, have celebrated the victory, others including Stephen King and Cardi B have expressed concern.

The names that will form Trump’s team chosen by the president and help him realize his vision for America have now been revealed.

So who has been confirmed for Team Trump 2.0?

One of Trump’s billionaire friends and one of his biggest financial supporters during the election, SpaceX and X chief executive Elon Musk has officially been promised a role in the incoming president’s administration.

Mr. Musk, 53, is set to co-lead a new department: the Department of Government Efficiency (which shares its name with the dogecoin crypto-currency). The ‘DOGE’ will operate outside the confines of the government and “pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” the president-elect said.

Mr. Musk’s co-lead is American businessman Vivek Ramaswamy. The businessman ran as the Republican presidential candidate for the 2024 election but ended his campaign in January.

Like X’s owner, the Cincinnati native is a billionaire.

He studied at Harvard and Yale, and before that, he founded the Campus Venture Network, a private social networking website for students who want to become entrepreneurs. The company was sold to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 2009.

He has also worked for a hedge fund and, in 2020, founded Chapter Medicare, a Medicare navigation platform.

In recent years, he turned his attention away from business and focused on his political ambitions.

Mr Hegseth has served in the US military, in Afghanistan and Iraq, but he has no senior national security experience.

Politically, he has established himself on the right, championing an ‘anti-woke’ agenda and lobbying to pardon service members accused of war crimes. He also questioned the role of women in combat.

“Everything about men and women serving together makes things more complicated, and the complications in combat, mean the casualties are worse,” he said earlier in the podcast.

Ms Wiles is the de facto manager of Mr Trump’s election campaign and is considered the favorite for the position. The daughter of former American football player Pat Summerall will become the first woman in history to serve as chief of staff.

The 67-year-old’s political career began in the 1970s as an aide to Jack Kemp, the Republican representative for New York and a former American professional football player who played alongside his father. He also worked on Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign and Dan Quayle’s vice presidential campaign in 1988.

The 2024 election is not the first time Wiles has worked with president-elect Mr. Trump. In 2020, he considers himself an integral part of his unsuccessful presidential bid.

A big part of Trump’s presidential campaign was his promise to launch the largest deportation of undocumented migrants in the country’s history. To help lead this, the president-elect has recruited Tom Homan, the former director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He announced Mr Homan’s appointment as the new “border tsar” on November 10 via his social network, Truth Social.

“I have known Tom for a long time, and there is no one better at policing and controlling our borders,” he wrote, explaining that Mr. Homan will be responsible for “all deportations of illegal aliens back to their countries of origin”.

President Barack Obama appointed Mr. Homan, 62, as associate executive director of ICE in 2013. Mr. Trump promoted him to acting director when he became president in 2017.

Although Mr. Obama rejected Mr. Homan’s proposal for a controversial family separation policy to prevent immigrants from entering the U.S. illegally, Mr. Trump supported the idea. He introduced it as a “zero-tolerance” immigration enforcement policy in 2018.

The BBC said he was a long-time ally of Mr Trump and a staunch supporter of Israel. He reportedly criticized the UN for not having enough support for the fight against Hamas that was elected to Congress.

Over the past decade, Ms Stefanik has moved from conservative moderates to the far right. He became one of Trump’s staunchest supporters, fiercely defending him during the 2019 impeachment trial. This prompted Mr Trump to call him a “Republican star”.

The president-elect will name 53-year-old Marco Rubio as Secretary of State.

Mr. Rubio is the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and was considered Trump’s vice presidential pick earlier this year.

He has previously called for a stronger foreign policy, particularly against China, Iran and Cuba.

Mr. Rubio ran unsuccessfully for president in 2016 against Mr. Trump.

John F Kennedy’s nephew was an independent presidential candidate before withdrawing and voicing his support for Mr Trump in August. An anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, the environmental lawyer, 70, has been lined up for a top job in Mr Trump’s administration, possibly in health care.

Speaking at a rally before the election, the president-elect said Mr Kennedy – better known as RFK – would have a “big role in the administration” and that he would allow him to “shake the food” and “go wild on drugs”.

“We don’t know what I’m going to do. I talked to the president about it yesterday, and he asked me what I wanted, and I said, we’re currently developing a proposal,” Mr. Kennedy said on Fox News.

Judging from Mr. Trump’s first term as president, he likes to keep things in the family. Despite telling Fox News in 2023 that his children would not be part of the second administration (“It’s very painful for the family, my family has been through hell”), his sons Don Jr. and Eric have a big role in him. 2024 campaign.

Donald Trump Jr., the president-elect’s eldest son, played a leading role in his father’s bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to President Joe Biden. As his father’s adviser, he is believed to have encouraged him to choose Ohio senator JD Vance as his running mate.

The roles of Don Jr. and Eric — the latter of whom is executive vice president of the Trump Organization — have not been announced. Eric’s wife, Lara, may have been involved in her father-in-law’s administration. The co-chairman of the Republican Party, he has long been a campaigner for Mr Trump’s presidential bid and is even being considered for the Senate in 2022.

Ivanka, Trump’s eldest daughter, played a key role in the latter’s presidency as a senior adviser, along with her husband, Jared Kushner.

However, the two are not in the 2024 campaign. “I love my father very much,” 43-year-old Ivanka – often believed to be Mr Trump’s favorite child – said when her father announced his 2022 presidential run.

“At this time, I chose to prioritize my children and the personal life we ​​created as a family.”