After the preliminary wave of employees bulletins for President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration, the nomination course of now formally begins.
Senate hearings are scheduled for a number of of Trump’s Cabinet picks subsequent week. Many met with senators individually. Now they’ll present as much as committees that oversee the businesses Trump needs them to run.
Here’s a take a look at the schedule of Senate hearings scheduled to date, Eastern time:
Tuesday
9:00am: Doug Collins, Department of Veterans Affairs
The former Georgia congressman seems first earlier than the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. Collins is a Baptist minister, former U.S. Navy chaplain and Air Force Reserve colonel. The VA gives well being care to former members of the U.S. navy.
9:30: Pete Hegseth, Department of Defense
The former “Fox & Friends” weekend host and Army National Guard fight veteran seems earlier than the Senate Armed Services Committee after weeks of conferences through which some senators questioned his suitability to the function amid allegations of extreme consuming and sexual misconduct. The Pentagon chief’s authority over the US navy is second solely to that of the president.
10 a.m.: Doug Burgum, Department of the Interior
The former North Dakota governor and businessman seems earlier than members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, who will take into account his nomination to be Secretary of the Interior, the chief steward of U.S. public lands. Burgum, who endorsed Trump after ending his presidential bid in 2024 and campaigned for Trump, was additionally tapped to steer the National Energy Council. Trump mentioned the council would search to ascertain US “vitality dominance” on the planet.
Wednesday
9:00: Kristi Noem, Department of Homeland Security
South Dakota’s governor will seem earlier than the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The rancher and former congresswoman is in line to run one of many authorities’s largest businesses, integral to Trump’s pledge to safe the border and perform a large deportation operation.
9:30: Pam Bondi, Department of Justice
The former Florida lawyer common makes the primary of two scheduled appearances earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee. She was Trump’s selection for lawyer common after his first selection, former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, withdrew from consideration. Gaetz was dealing with questions on a federal intercourse trafficking investigation and a House Ethics Committee investigation into allegations that he paid for intercourse, together with with a 17-year-old woman.
Bondi has been a longtime fixture in Trump’s orbit. The lawyer common shall be some of the carefully watched Cabinet members, given Democrats’ concern that Trump will attempt to bend the Justice Department to his will.
10am: Sean Duffy, Department of Transportation
The former Wisconsin congressman, who additionally served as a co-host on Fox Business, shall be questioned by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. The division oversees pipelines, railroads, vehicles, vans, airways and public transportation techniques, in addition to funding for highways.
10:00: John Ratcliffe, CIA
Ratcliffe, director of nationwide intelligence for the ultimate months of Trump’s first time period, seems earlier than the Senate Intelligence Committee. The former Texas congressman is in line to steer the nation’s prime spy company, answerable for covert operations overseas and gathering knowledge on U.S. adversaries.
10 am: Marco Rubio, Department of State
The Florida senator served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is contemplating his nomination for secretary of state. As head of the State Department, Rubio would oversee the U.S. Foreign Service, advise Trump on diplomatic appointments and conduct negotiations with international leaders on behalf of the administration.
10:00: Chris Wright, Department of Energy
The fossil gasoline government, who has been one of many business’s loudest voices in opposition to efforts to struggle local weather change, seems earlier than the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The secretary oversees the manufacturing and use of vitality within the United States, in addition to the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. Wright would additionally be a part of Burgum on the National Energy Council.
1pm: Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget
Vought, OMB director throughout Trump’s first time period, seems earlier than the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Vought has been carefully concerned in Project 2025, a conservative challenge for Trump’s second time period that the Republican nominee sought to distance himself from throughout the marketing campaign. The funds director oversees the development of the president’s funds and the evaluation of proposed rules.
Thursday
10:00am: Scott Turner, Department of Housing and Urban Development
THE former NFL player who managed the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council throughout Trump’s first time period he seems at a listening to earlier than the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Turner is an expert mentor, pastor, and former member of the Texas House. HUD is charged with addressing the nation’s housing wants and truthful housing legal guidelines and oversees housing for the poorest Americans.
10:00: Lee Zeldin, Environmental Protection Agency
The former New York congressman seems earlier than the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The company is charged with environmental safety points, conducting assessments, analysis, schooling, and sustaining and imposing nationwide requirements.
10.15am: Bondi, second day earlier than the Senate Justice Commission.
10:30am: Scott Bessent, Treasury Department
The billionaire cash supervisor from South Carolina solutions questions from members of the Senate Finance Committee. Bessent can be the primary brazenly LGBTQ Cabinet member confirmed to the Senate in a Republican administration. The head of the treasury helps formulate monetary, financial and monetary coverage and handle authorities debt.
Dates not but confirmed
Hearings usually are not but scheduled for all of Trump’s picks, together with a few of the most controversial:
Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Department of Labor
Tulsi Gabbard, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Department of Health and Human Services
Howard Lutnick, Department of Commerce
Linda McMahon, Department of Education
Kash Patel, FBI
Brooke Rollins, Department of Agriculture
Elise Stefanik, United Nations Ambassador
Kinnard reported from Chapin, South Carolina.
