Who is in Donald Trump's new top team? Pam Bondi replaces Matt Gaetz alongside Elon Musk and Robert F Kennedy

The president-elect moved quickly, choosing his loyal protagonist conscionable hours aft Mr Gaetz departed, successful airy of a national sex-trafficking probe into him.

Ms Bondi has go 1 of the much accepted choices the 47th president-in-waiting has made for his apical team.

The president-elect needs to employment 25 furniture members and countless unit arsenic helium aims to present connected his committedness to “make America large again” a 2nd time.

Usually, the roles request Senate support and impact plentifulness of back-and-forth if Democrats, oregon so immoderate acrophobic Republicans, effort to artifact the appointments.

This means that helium could technically bypass Senate confirmation and unit immoderate beauteous arguable characters into apical White House roles.

Here are immoderate cardinal names successful Team Trump 2.0.

She was 1 of his lawyers during his archetypal impeachment proceedings erstwhile helium was accused – but not convicted – of abusing his powerfulness arsenic helium tried to information US subject assistance to Ukraine.

The 59-year-old was among a radical of Republicans who showed up to enactment Mr Trump astatine his hush-money transgression proceedings successful New York which ended successful May with a condemnation connected 34 felony counts.

A long-time Democrat earlier joining the Republicans successful 2000, she has additionally chaired the America First Policy Institute, a thinktank acceptable up by erstwhile Trump administration staffers.

Mr Wright – a clime sceptic with nary governmental acquisition – is the laminitis and CEO of Liberty Energy, which promotes the work of fracking.

The assignment serves Mr Trump’s predetermination run motto, “Drill, baby, drill”. In a video connected his LinkedIn page, helium says: “There is nary clime crisis, and we’re not successful the midst of an vigor modulation either.”

An anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and biology lawyer, RFK was announced arsenic the president-elect’s wellness secretary.

Speaking astatine a rally earlier the election, Mr Trump said that Mr Kennedy – who is amended known arsenic RFK – would person a “big relation successful the administration” and that he’d fto him “go chaotic connected food” and “go chaotic connected medicines”.

Mr Kennedy has suggested helium plans to prohibition fluoride successful water, contempt a assemblage of technological grounds suggesting it helps people’s teeth.

Mr Musk, 53, is acceptable to co-lead a caller department: the Department of Government Efficiency (which shares its sanction with crypto-currency dogecoin).

The ‘DOGE’ volition run extracurricular the confines of authorities and “pave the mode for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, chopped wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” the president-elect said.

Mr Musk’s co-lead is different billionaire and American entrepreneur with a inheritance successful business.

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) co-founder Linda McMahon, 76, is Mr Trump’s prime for acquisition secretary. 

She has tally for a Senate spot doubly – and failed some times. Nevertheless, she has carved retired a governmental vocation acknowledgment to Mr Trump and led the Small Business Administration during his archetypal word successful the White House. 

She was connected Connecticut's committee of acquisition betwixt 2009 and 2010 but it is unclear what different acquisition she tin gully from successful her caller role. 

Mr Trump said Ms McMahon would "use her decades of enactment experience, and heavy knowing of some Education and Business, to empower the adjacent Generation of American Students and Workers".

Mehmet Oz is champion known to Americans arsenic Dr Oz, acknowledgment to the eponymous daytime TV amusement he’s fronted for decades. But now, he’ll beryllium utilizing his aesculapian cognition wholly differently.

The TV doctor, 64, volition pb the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, nether RFK Jr’s wellness remit. 

Like RFK Jr, Dr Oz was criticised for pushing misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic erstwhile helium claimed malaria drugs could cure the virus. 

Nevertheless, Mr Trump wrote connected Truth Social: “There whitethorn beryllium nary Physician much qualified and susceptible than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again.”

The 44-year-old Fox News host served successful the US subject successful Afghanistan and Iraq but has nary elder nationalist information experience.

Politically, helium has positioned himself firmly connected the right, championing an ‘anti-woke’ docket and lobbying for the pardoning of work members charged with warfare crimes. He’s besides questioned the relation of women successful combat.

“Everything astir men and women serving unneurotic makes the concern much complicated, and complication successful combat, that means casualties are worse,” helium erstwhile said connected a podcast.

Ms Wiles was the de facto manager of Mr Trump’s predetermination run and was considered the favourite for the position. The girl of erstwhile American footballer Pat Summerall volition go the archetypal pistillate successful past to beryllium main of staff.

The 67-year-old’s governmental vocation stretches backmost to the 1970s erstwhile she was an adjunct to Jack Kemp, a Republican typical for New York and erstwhile nonrecreational American shot subordinate who played alongside her father.

She besides worked connected Ronald Reagan’s statesmanlike run and Dan Quayle’s vice-presidential run successful 1988.

A ample portion of Mr Trump’s statesmanlike run was his pledge to motorboat the biggest deportation of undocumented migrants successful the country’s history.

Tom Homan, the erstwhile manager of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was chosen to get the occupation done.

Former president Barack Obama appointed Mr Homan, 62, arsenic the enforcement subordinate manager of ICE successful 2013. Mr Trump promoted him to acting manager during his archetypal stint arsenic president successful 2017.

Although Mr Obama rejected Mr Homan’s connection for a contentious household separation argumentation to deter immigrants from entering the US illegally, Mr Trump supported the idea. He introduced it arsenic a “zero-tolerance” migration enforcement argumentation successful 2018.

The BBC said she was a long-time Mr Trump state and a staunch protagonist of Israel. She has reportedly criticised the UN for what she argues is simply a deficiency of capable backing for its warfare against Hamas elected to Congress.

Over the past decade, Ms Stefanik shifted from moderately blimpish to the acold right.

The president-elect has nominated Marco Rubio, 53, arsenic his Secretary of State. Mr Rubio is the apical Republican connected the Senate Intelligence Committee and was considered for Mr Trump's vice president shortlist earlier this year.

He has antecedently called for a stronger overseas argumentation to beryllium introduced, particularly against the likes of China, Iran and Cuba.

Mr Rubio ran for president unsuccessfully successful 2016 against Mr Trump.

Former Democrat turned Republican riding star, Tulsi Gabbard, was selected to pb America’s spy agencies and intelligence.

Although she doesn’t person a accepted quality background, she antecedently worked successful the military. Gabbard besides believes the US shouldn’t beryllium progressive successful overseas conflicts and authorities changes.