Who's in the frame to join Trump's new top team?

Susie Wiles and run co-chair Chris LaCivita were the masterminds down Trump's landslide triumph implicit Kamala Harris.

In his triumph code connected Wednesday, helium called her "the crystal maiden" - a notation to her composure - and claimed she "likes to enactment successful the background”.

Wiles was confirmed the adjacent time arsenic the archetypal appointee of his 2nd word - arsenic his White House main of staff. She volition beryllium the archetypal pistillate ever to clasp that job.

Chief of unit is often a president's apical aide, overseeing regular operations successful the White House West Wing and managing the boss's staff.

Wiles, 67, is considered 1 of the astir feared and respected governmental operatives successful the country.

Less than a twelvemonth aft she started moving successful politics, she worked connected Ronald Reagan’s palmy 1980 statesmanlike run and aboriginal became a scheduler successful his White House.

In 2010, she turned Rick Scott, a then-businessman with small governmental experience, into Florida’s politician successful conscionable 7 months. Scott is present a US senator.

Wiles met Trump during the 2015 Republican statesmanlike superior and she became the co-chair of his Florida campaign, astatine the clip considered a plaything state. Trump went connected to narrowly decision Hillary Clinton determination successful 2016.

Wiles has been commended by Republicans for her quality to bid respect and cheque the large egos of those successful Trump's orbit, which could alteration her to enforce a consciousness of bid that nary of his 4 erstwhile chiefs of unit could.

No unit determination whitethorn beryllium much captious to the trajectory of Trump's 2nd word than the appointee to pb the Department of Justice.

After uneven relationships with some Jeff Sessions and William Barr, Trump is wide expected to prime a loyalist who volition wield the agency's prosecutorial powerfulness to punish critics and opponents. Department officials are presently moving to upwind down 2 national prosecutions brought against him by Special Counsel Jack Smith's office.

Among the names being floated for the furniture station are Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who was some indicted and impeached similar Trump; Matthew Whitaker, the antheral who took implicit for 3 months arsenic acting lawyer wide aft Sessions stepped down astatine Trump's request; and Mark Paoletta, erstwhile ineligible counsel to then-Vice-President Dick Cheney, who served successful Trump's fund bureau and argues determination is nary ineligible request for a president to enactment retired of justness section decisions.

The caput of homeland information is liable for handling migration and borderline enforcement, and starring the authorities effect to earthy disasters.

Tom Homan, a main proponent of Trump's migration approach, stands retired arsenic the astir apt pick.

He served arsenic the acting manager of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) during the archetypal Trump administration, wherever helium backed separating migrant children from their parents arsenic a mode to deter amerciable crossings. He besides made headlines for saying politicians who enactment sanctuary metropolis policies should beryllium charged with crimes.

He aboriginal resigned from his presumption successful 2018, mid-way done the Trump presidency.

But helium has been progressive successful processing Trump's wide deportation proposals, precocious telling CBS's 60 Minutes programme that it volition absorption connected "targeted arrests".

"It's not going to beryllium a wide expanse of neighbourhoods. It's not going to beryllium gathering attraction camps. I've work it all. It's ridiculous," helium said.

Though the program could outgo billions of dollars, Homan, 62, has responded: "What terms bash you enactment connected nationalist security?"

The US caput of authorities is the president's main advisor connected overseas affairs, who acts arsenic America's apical diplomat erstwhile representing the state overseas.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio is a large sanction floated for the position.

Rubio, 53, was astir precocious nether information to beryllium Trump's vice-president - a relation that yet went to his workfellow from Ohio, JD Vance.

A elder subordinate of the Senate overseas relations committee and vice-chairman of the chamber's prime quality panel, the Cuban American lawmaker is simply a China hawk who opposed Trump successful the 2016 Republican superior but has since mended fences and worked intimately with him.

But immoderate Trump allies criticise him arsenic a "neo-conservative" who fits poorly with Trump's "America First" agenda. Other possibilities for the presumption see Trump's erstwhile nationalist information advisor Robert O'Brien and Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty, who was antecedently Trump's ambassador to Japan.

A acheronian equine for the nomination, however, is Richard Grenell, who served arsenic Trump's ambassador to Germany, peculiar envoy to the Balkans and his acting manager of nationalist intelligence.

Grenell, 58, was heavy progressive successful the efforts to overturn Trump's 2020 predetermination decision successful the plaything authorities of Nevada and the president-elect prizes his loyalty.

In September, helium sat successful connected Trump's backstage gathering with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The erstwhile president often claims helium volition extremity the warfare successful Ukraine "within 24 hours" of taking bureau and Grenell has advocated for mounting up an autonomous portion successful eastbound Ukraine arsenic a means to that extremity - an thought seen arsenic unacceptable by Kyiv.

But Grenell's combative benignant volition apt marque him a amended acceptable for nationalist information advisor - a presumption that does not necessitate Senate confirmation.

Also rumoured for large nationalist information posts are erstwhile Trump Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe; Keith Kellogg, a nationalist information advisor to Trump's archetypal Vice-President Mike Pence; and Kash Patel, a loyalist who staffed Trump's nationalist information assembly and aboriginal helped artifact the modulation to the incoming Joe Biden medication arsenic main of unit to the acting caput of defence. Patel could beryllium the adjacent Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief.

Trump besides said helium would occurrence Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) Director Chris Wray, who helium nominated successful 2017. Jeffrey Jensen, a erstwhile Trump-appointed US attorney, is nether information to regenerate Wray.

Ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is among the fewer erstwhile Trump furniture members who could instrumentality for his 2nd word arsenic caput of defence, wherever helium would oversee the US military.

The erstwhile Kansas congressman, 60, served archetypal arsenic Trump's manager of the CIA earlier becoming his main diplomat.

A overseas argumentation hawk and a fierce protagonist of Israel, helium played a highly disposable relation successful moving the US embassy successful Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He was among the cardinal players successful the implementation of the Abraham Accords, which normalised relations betwixt Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

He remained a loyal defender of his boss, often tangling with the property and adjacent joking that determination would beryllium "a creaseless modulation to a 2nd Trump administration" amid Trump's mendacious claims of predetermination fraud successful precocious 2020.

Another sanction being discussed is Michael Waltz, a Florida lawmaker who sits connected the equipped services committee successful the US House of Representatives.

To beryllium the main fiscal serviceman of his incoming administration, Trump is reportedly considering Robert Lighthizer, a escaped commercialized sceptic who led the Republican's tit-for-tat tariff warfare with China arsenic the US commercialized representative.

But astatine slightest 4 others whitethorn beryllium nether information for the role, including Scott Bessent, a billionaire hedge money manager who has go a large fundraiser and economical advisor to the president-elect; John Paulson, different megadonor from the hedge money world; erstwhile Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seat Jay Clayton; and Fox Business Network fiscal commentator Larry Kudlow, who ran Trump's nationalist economical council.

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum was not well-known connected the nationalist country until helium launched a bid for president successful the 2024 Republican primary.

After making small impact, helium dropped retired and endorsed Trump, rapidly impressing him with his no-drama persona, executive-level competence and wealth.

A bundle entrepreneur who sold his tiny institution to Microsoft successful 2001, helium is considered a apical contender to pb the interior department, wherever helium volition beryllium liable for managing national lands and earthy resources.

That is an accidental for him to enactment Trump's vows to "drill, baby, drill" and overhaul US vigor policy.

The Trump 2024 campaign's nationalist property secretary, Karoline Leavitt, 27, antecedently served successful his White House property office, arsenic an adjunct property secretary.

The 27-year-old Gen-Zer made a bid to go the youngest pistillate ever elected to the US Congress successful 2022, to correspond her location authorities of New Hampshire, but fell short.

She is tipped to go the White House property caput - the astir public-facing presumption successful the cabinet.

The past 2 years person been rather a travel for the nephew of erstwhile President John F Kennedy.

An biology lawyer by trade, Robert F Kennedy Jr, 70, ran for president arsenic a Democrat, with astir of his household speaking retired against his anti-vaccine views and conspiracy theories arsenic they endorsed Joe Biden's re-election.

He past became an autarkic but, failing to summation traction amid a bid of controversies, dropped retired of the contention and endorsed Trump.

In the past 2 months of the 2024 predetermination cycle, helium spearheaded a Trump run inaugural called "Make America Healthy Again".

Trump precocious promised helium would play a large relation related to nationalist wellness agencies similar the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Safety Administration (FDA).

RFK Jr, arsenic helium is known, asserted helium would propulsion to region fluoride from drinking h2o due to the fact that "it's a precise atrocious mode to present it into our systems" - though this has been challenged by immoderate experts.

And successful an interrogation with NBC News, Kennedy rejected the thought that helium was "anti-vaccine", saying helium wouldn't "take distant anybody's vaccines" but alternatively supply them with "the champion information" to marque their ain choices.

Rather than a ceremonial furniture position, Kennedy utilized the interrogation to suggest helium could instrumentality connected a broader relation wrong the White House.

The world's richest man, Elon Musk, 53, announced his enactment for the erstwhile president earlier this year, contempt saying successful 2022 that "it's clip for Trump to bent up his chapeau and sail into the sunset".

The tech billionaire has since emerged arsenic 1 of the astir disposable and well-known backers of Trump and donated much than $119m (£91.6m) this predetermination rhythm to America PAC - a governmental enactment committee helium created to enactment the erstwhile president.

Musk, the caput of Tesla and SpaceX and proprietor of the societal media level X, besides launched a elector registration thrust that included a $1m (£771,000) give-away to a random swing-state elector each day during the closing agelong of the campaign.

Since registering arsenic a Republican up of the 2022 midterm elections, Musk has been progressively vocal connected issues including amerciable migration and transgender rights.

Both Musk and Trump person concentrated connected the thought of him starring a caller "Department of Government Efficiency", wherever helium would chopped costs, betterment regulations and streamline what helium calls a "massive, suffocating national bureaucracy".

The would-be agency's acronym - DOGE - is simply a playful notation to a "meme-coin" cryptocurrency Musk has antecedently promoted.