Barely a week after his victory in the presidential election, Donald Trump has already named his candidates for several key cabinet positions.
Trump already made his first appointment on Thursday last week: Susie Wiles will be the White House chief of staff, who was the first woman to serve in this position, and she will lead the handover process.
Difficult times may greet China
According to the leaked information, Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio will be invited to the position of foreign minister, making him the first politician of Latin American origin to head the foreign ministry.
In recent years, Rubio has advocated a strict foreign policy towards countries such as China, Iran and Cuba.
Regarding Ukraine, the Republican senator previously stated that the country at war should primarily seek a negotiated settlement with Russia, instead of focusing on regaining previously lost territories.
Accordingly, he was one of 15 Republican senators who voted against the $95 billion military aid package to Kiev passed in April.
The 53-year-old Rubio has several years of experience in foreign policy and national security has experience. He is the senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee.
The newly elected president a For New York Post he also revealed that he chose 40-year-old Elisa Stefanik, a representative from New York, for the post of UN ambassador, who accepted the invitation. When she was elected in 2014, she was the youngest woman ever to win a seat in Congress.
Stefanik is considered a committed supporter of Israel, and has repeatedly accused the UN of anti-Semitism.
And last year, he played a leading role in the House Republicans’ response to anti-Semitism on college campuses.
Florida representative Mike Waltz was appointed by Trump to the post of national security advisor Politico according to his information, who
he is considered one of the most anti-China politicians in Congress.
Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida in July 2024
Image: Reuters / File photo / Mike Segar
Like many prominent Republicans, Waltz has rejected sending more U.S. military aid to Ukraine. With regard to Israel, he repeated Trump’s previous call to “let him finish the job” in defeating Hamas, and he would further increase the pressure on Iran to prevent it from building a nuclear weapon. Waltz served on the House Committees on Armed Services, Intelligence, and Foreign Affairs.
They can fulfill Trump’s promises on migration
The post of Minister of Internal Security is also sold Reuters according to information: South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem may fill this position. Noem, previously considered a possible vice presidential candidate for Trump, is currently serving his second four-year term as governor of South Dakota.
He gained national recognition when he refused to introduce mandatory mask use throughout the state during the COVID epidemic.
The Department of Homeland Security is responsible for everything from border protection to immigration to disaster relief, and the United States Secret Service is also overseen by this department.
Trump on Monday Tom Homan named it on the Truth Social page to the administration’s head of border protection, who said he would prioritize deporting illegal immigrants who pose a threat to national security. Homan was previously the director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (ICE), in which position she oversaw the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” program for separating parents from their children at the border.
Trump has previously said that one of his first priorities when he takes office in January will be to make the border “strong and robust.” When asked about his campaign promise of mass deportation, Trump said his administration had “no choice” but to carry it out. The Department of Homeland Security estimated that in 2022 there were approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. During Trump’s first term, he carried out 1.5 million deportations, at a cost of nearly 11,000 dollars each.
Vice President-elect JD Vance said in August that he wants to deport one million undocumented immigrants a year, just “as a start.” If necessary, the new administration would rely on the National Guard to implement this.
The greening of America may be over
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is headed by a former representative from New York, Lee Zeldin costswho as a legislator regularly voted against laws on the green transition.
From 2015 to 2023, Zeldin voted yes 14 percent of the time on key environmental legislation, according to data from the environmental group League of Conservation Voters.
Trump has already announced that on his first day in office he will begin rolling back regulations limiting vehicle pollution and is considering ending tax incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles. He also plans to roll back California’s ability to freely set emissions regulations for its own vehicles.
We are restoring US energy dominance, revitalizing our auto industry and making the US a global leader in artificial intelligence
– announced Zeldin on X after his appointment.
Europe is terrified of Trump’s plans, and Hungarian performance can also help
Dramatic effects are expected in Germany due to the planned trade policy of the new American president: losses of billions in the EU’s largest economy, mass layoffs, a drop in investments and a deepening crisis in the automotive industry are projected, which will also affect the Hungarian GDP.
Source: www.economx.hu
