President-elect Donald Trump is counting on a handful of loyal allies who leaped to his side during his 2019 impeachment trial to overhaul Washington, D.C.’s biggest federal bureaucracies. 

He has nominated four House Republicans who were on his 2019 impeachment defense team to head critical agencies over the past week. Trump selected Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to be the ambassador to the United Nations, former Rep. Lee Zeldin to oversee the Environmental Protection Agency, former Rep. John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA, and former Rep. Doug Collins to head the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

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