Donald Trump's nominations for Cabinet, White House team

Scott Gottlieb, the new FDA chief, explained

Trump wants to deregulate the Food and Drug Administration. He chose the right guy for the job.

Trump’s rumored pick for NATO ambassador doesn’t seem to agree with him about NATO

He once tweeted that "if you think Trump knows foreign policy issues then absolutely yes, you are stupid."

The weird mystery of the Trump administration's agriculture secretary vacancy

Sonny Perdue's stalled confirmation, not explained because nobody knows what's happening

Now that he’s confirmed, Rick Perry has a big decision to make about the Energy Department

He’s entering the agency right at a moment of crisis.

549 key positions in the administration need Senate confirmation. So far, Trump has filled 14.

A conversation with Max Stier, the CEO of a group that helped prepare Trump for the transition.

H.R. McMaster, Trump’s pick for national security adviser: a brief guide

A good general who's just been given a very tough job.

The confirmation hearing for Trump's ambassador to Israel was a total circus

David Friedman’s controversial positions on Israel prompted protests and skepticism.

Donald Trump just named his next labor secretary nominee

The new nominee’s CV could hardly look more different than that of Trump’s first pick.

Donald Trump is falling way behind schedule in executive branch appointments

He’s losing nominees faster than he’s designating new ones.

Donald Trump’s pick for labor secretary is withdrawing

Andrew Puzder was sunk by two high-profile scandals that led several Republican senators to refuse to support his candidacy.

The ex-wife of Trump's Labor pick appeared on this domestic violence episode of Oprah

She has since retracted the allegations, but the video is likely to hurt an already imperiled nomination.

Trump said he would hire the best people. Instead we got the Trump administration.

A reality TV star, not a management savant.

Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, resigns over Russia lies

Flynn, a Trump loyalist, had been on thin ice even before the scandal that cost him his job.

The controversy around HHS secretary Tom Price’s stock portfolio, explained

Why Democrats are attacking Price’s conflicts of interest at his confirmation hearings.

Tom Price is likely headed for overnight confirmation as HHS secretary

He’s expected to oversee Obamacare repeal efforts for the Trump administration.

Betsy DeVos can change education in America without doing a thing

When she does, what will happen to the high-profile resistance to Trump’s most divisive nominee?

How Betsy DeVos became Trump’s most controversial nominee

She’ll likely be confirmed today with less support than any Cabinet member in history.

There's still one Trump nominee who could go down in flames

Why one Trump Cabinet nominee is still stuck at the starting gate.

The job of the education secretary isn’t to defend public schools. It’s to help kids learn.

Someone paid random internet users to lobby for Betsy DeVos's confirmation

Unknown “bad actors” may be behind these odd ads for the secretary of education nominee.

Partisanship of Cabinet confirmations is rising. But Trump’s picks are still different.

This chart that shows how Cabinet nominations have become hyperpartisan.

On the day Rex Tillerson is confirmed, the House votes to kill a transparency rule for oil companies

At least Exxon Mobil had a good day.

The mystery that is Rex Tillerson

What will Rex Tillerson do as secretary of state? It’s really hard to say.

Republicans change Senate rules to thwart boycott over Trump nominees’ inaccurate testimony

Trump’s Cabinet picks will pay no price for clear falsehoods in their sworn statements.

Senate Democrats are boycotting a vote on Tom Price over his sweetheart deals

They’re boycotting a vote on Steve Mnuchin too.