Trump says he won’t require FBI vetting of nominees and wants Congress to adjourn so that he can appoint Cabinet chairs without Senate approval

By Miriam Raftery 

Update November 22, 2024:  Gaetz has withdrawn his name from consideration for the Attorney General appointment.

Photo: Rep. Matt Gaetz, Attorney General nominee, would oversee the Justice Department. He is accused of paying a trafficker for sex with women, including an underaged teen girl. 

November 19, 2024 (Washington D.C.) – President-elect Donald Trump has announced many of his cabinet appointees, which require Senate confirmation, as well as other key positions in his next administration. While all are Trump loyalists, some nominees have experience and qualifications suited to the position. But other nominees have sparked bipartisan concerns. They include:

• An attorney general nominee who resigned from Congress after an investigation found evidence that he paid a trafficker to have sex with a minor;
• A Secretary of Defense nominee accused of raping a woman and having racist white nationalist beliefs;
• A director of national intelligence with a history of siding with Russia and other authoritarian regimes;
• A Secretary of Energy a fracking company CEO who claims there is no climate crisis
• A Secretary of Health and Human Services who is an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist