


The Senate has confirmed five members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet since he assumed office on Jan. 20, with five more ready for floor action in the coming days.
The pace is faster than in 2017, the first time Trump had Republican control of Washington. By this point in his first term, only two were confirmed.
Trump also has more Cabinet members than the three former President Joe Biden had in place after his first week.
Every term, presidents nominate people for a Cabinet made up of 15 department heads and the vice president. The infographic below tracks those department positions across the last three presidencies to assess how quickly Trump’s Cabinet is taking shape relative to his immediate predecessors and first term.

The process takes significantly longer today than it did even a decade ago due to growing partisanship. Former President Barack Obama had three-quarters of his Cabinet in place after his first week in 2009.
But Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has attempted to reverse that trend with an accelerated confirmation schedule, forcing weekend votes and allowing committee chairs to advance nominees without all paperwork in hand.
It took Trump 97 days to get all 15 Senate-confirmed Cabinet members in place in his first term. For Biden, that figure was 61 days.
There are several positions beyond the 15 that presidents designate as Cabinet-level, but they are not standardized across each administration.
Obama, for example, elevated his Council of Economic Advisers chairman to the Cabinet, whereas Trump has not.
When accounting for all of Trump’s 22 Cabinet-level positions that require Senate approval, six have been confirmed, and a Wednesday vote is scheduled for his seventh: Lee Zeldin to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
From there, the Senate will vote on Doug Burgum to be interior secretary, Christopher Wright to be energy secretary, and Doug Collins to be secretary of veterans affairs.
The section below, to be updated periodically, details the status of each nominee.
Confirmed
Marco Rubio, secretary of state (99-0)
John Ratcliffe, CIA director (74-25)
Pete Hegseth, defense secretary (51-50)
Kristi Noem, secretary of homeland security (59-34)
Scott Bessent, treasury secretary (68-29)
Sean Duffy, transportation secretary (77-22)
Voted out of committee
Lee Zeldin, Environmental Protection Agency administrator (11-8)
Doug Burgum, interior secretary (18-2)
Chris Wright, energy secretary (15-5)
Doug Collins, secretary of veterans affairs (18-1)
Scott Turner, secretary of housing and urban development (13-11)
Pam Bondi, attorney general (12-10)
Hearings complete
Elise Stefanik, ambassador to the United Nations (Foreign Relations Committee vote Thursday)
Russ Vought, Office of Management and Budget director (Budget Committee vote on Thursday, advanced separately out of the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee on Jan. 20 in an 8-7 vote)
Brooke Rollins, agriculture secretary (Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee vote TBD)
Awaiting hearing
Kelly Loeffler, Small Business Administration administrator (Hearing scheduled for Wednesday)
Howard Lutnick, commerce secretary (Hearing scheduled for Wednesday)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of health and human services (Hearings scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday)
Tulsi Gabbard, director of national untelligence (Hearing scheduled for Thursday)
Linda McMahon, education secretary (Hearing date TBD)
Lori Chavez-DeRemer, labor secretary (Hearing date TBD)
Jamieson Greer, U.S. trade representative (Hearing date TBD)