Who has Trump picked for his Cabinet so far? Here’s what to know

President-elect Donald Trump has made two more selections for his Cabinet: Fox Business host and fellow former reality TV star Sean Duffy for Secretary of Transportation and Brendan Carr to head the Federal Communications Commission.
Duffy, selected on Monday, is a co-host of “The Bottom Line” on Fox Business and was a Trump loyalist in Congress during Trump’s first term. Carr, chosen on Sunday, is a senior Republican on the commission most recently known for criticizing “Saturday Night Live” for an appearance by Vice President Kamala Harris, saying it was a violation of the “equal time” rule governing candidate appearances on television.
Meanwhile peril continued to mount Monday for Trump’s pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz. Florida lawyer Joel Leppard, who represented two women in the House Ethics Committee investigation into the former representative, said the women alleged Gaetz paid them for sex, according to multiple media reports.
One of the women also said she saw Gaetz having sex with a 17-year-old, according to reports from the Washington Post and ABC News.
The Justice Department’s investigation into sex trafficking allegations against Gaetz ended without charges. Gaetz, who has denied wrongdoing, resigned from Congress Wednesday, two days before a House Ethics Committee report about the probe was scheduled for release.
A spokesperson for Gaetz’s House office, Jacob Bliss, directed USA TODAY to a statement from Trump transition spokesperson Alex Pfeiffer, who described the allegations as a “baseless” attempt to derail Trump’s upcoming administration.
Here’s the latest on Trump’s latest choices.
Duffy’s nomination marks the second Fox connection among those who have been chosen for nomination to the incoming administration.
Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host, was chosen to be Trump’s Secretary of Defense. Hegseth is currently embroiled in sexual assault and far-right extremism scandals involving his tattoos. Hegseth has denied the sexual assault claims and said he only reached a settlement agreement with the accuser to protect his job in 2020. About the tattoos that led to his removal from a National Guard assignment, he has said they were “just a Christian symbol.” 
Duffy first appeared on television as a cast member on MTV’s “The Real World” in 1997 and later appeared in “Road Rules: All Stars” in 1998 and “Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons” in 2002.
Duffy served as a congressman from Wisconsin’s 7th congressional district from 2011 to 2019 and was a frequent Fox News guest during his time in the House. Duffy worked as a district attorney in Ashland County, Wisconsin prior to his stint in Congress.
Duffy’s wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, is a host on Fox & Friends Weekend.
“The husband of a wonderful woman, Rachel Campos-Duffy, a STAR on Fox News, and the father of nine incredible children, Sean knows how important it is for families to be able to travel safely, and with peace of mind,” Trump said in a statement.
Trump’s announcement is an indication that he intends to nominate Duffy for Senate approval, however Trump has floated the demand that Republican Senate leadership allow for recess appointments as an end-around of the confirmation process.
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Trump tapped Brendan Carr to lead the Federal Communications Commission. Carr is the senior Republican commissioner at the FCC and authored a chapter of Project 2025.
Carr wrote in the guide that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which grants immunity to tech companies that moderate user-generated content, should be stripped to end content moderation that some conservatives view as censorship.
“Congress should do so by ensuring that Internet companies no longer have carte blanche to censor protected speech while maintaining their Section 230 protections,” Carr wrote
Carr supports banning TikTok, claiming that it poses a national security threat, although the president-elect joined the popular social media platform in June.
Carr wrote in Project 2025 that the app “provides Beijing with an opportunity to run a foreign influence campaign by determining the news and information that the app feeds to millions of Americans.”
Carr also wrote that the FCC should expedite its review and approval of Starlink internet satellites from tech baron and Trump acolyte Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
In a post announcing the Carr’s appointment on Truth Social, Trump said Carr is a “warrior for Free Speech.”
Here are Trump’s picks for key positions in his administration, as of Sunday night.
The Cabinet advises the president on issues related to their respective offices.
These are the Cabinet positions from the 15 executive departments, which must be confirmed by the Senate:
The Cabinet and presidential advisers can also include the vice president, the chief of staff, the ambassador to the United Nations, the director of National Intelligence, the U.S. trade representative, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, the head of the Council of Economic Advisors, the head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the head of the Small Business Administration.
Contributing: Aysha Bagchi, Zac Anderson, Darren Samuelsohn, Dan Morrison, Karen Weintraub, Alyssa Goldberg, Tom Vanden Brook, David Jackson, Savannah Kuchar, Victor Hagan, Bart Jansen, Fernando Cervantes Jr., Riley Beggin, Michael Collins, Joey Garrison; Kaycee Sloan, the Cincinnati Enquirer.