The Senate has confirmed six members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet since he assumed office on Jan. 20, with four 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 officials 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, eight have been confirmed. The Senate will next vote on 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)
Lee Zeldin, Environmental Protection Agency administrator (56-42)
Doug Burgum, interior secretary (79-18)
Voted out of committee
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)
Elise Stefanik, ambassador to the United Nations (voice vote)
Russ Vought, Office of Management and Budget director (Budget Committee 11-0 after Democratic boycott, advanced separately 8-7 out of the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee)
Hearings complete
Brooke Rollins, agriculture secretary (Committee vote TBD)
Kelly Loeffler, Small Business Administration administrator (Committee vote TBD)
Howard Lutnick, commerce secretary (Committee vote TBD)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of health and human services (Committee vote TBD)
Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence (Committee vote TBD)
Awaiting hearing
Linda McMahon, education secretary (Hearing date TBD)
Lori Chavez-DeRemer, labor secretary (Hearing date TBD)
Jamieson Greer, U.S. trade representative (Hearing date TBD)
