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2025 Confirmation Coverage

Watch the 2025 Confirmation Hearings for Trump's cabinet picks. Videos will be added when they become available, and the schedule updated as soon as more information is available.

Background: Here's who Trump has picked as Cabinet members and key advisers

Confirmation Hearings Schedule
*Times are set in Central Standard Time (CST)

Upcoming:

Previous:

Tuesday 1/14

  • Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary (CONFIRMED)

Post hearing coverage:
Pete Hegseth, Trump's defense secretary pick, grilled at contentious Senate hearing

Wednesday 1/15
Pam Bondi, Justice Department

Post hearing coverage:
Trump attorney general pick Bondi faces Democrats' questions about her independence

Post hearing coverage:
Duffy commits to prioritizing safety on the roadways and in the air

Post hearing coverage:
Marco Rubio draws bipartisan support at his Senate confirmation hearing

Chris Wright, Energy Department

Post hearing coverage:
Trump's energy secretary nominee faces questions over climate posts and LA fires

Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget

Thursday 1/16
Doug Burgum, Interior Department
Scott Turner, Housing and Urban Development Department
Lee Zeldin, Environmental Protection Agency

Post hearing coverage: Trump's pick for EPA administrator is Lee Zeldin. Here's what to know

Bondi, Day 2 before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Post hearing coverage: Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary is Scott Bessent. Here's what to know

Friday 1/17

  • Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Department (CONFIRMED)

Post hearing coverage:Trump's Homeland Security pick pressed on domestic terrorism in hearing

Tuesday, 1/21
Doug Collins, Department of Veterans Affairs

Post hearing coverage: Doug Collins, Trump's nominee to lead the VA, vows to work across the aisle to help vets

Elise Stefanik, U.N. ambassador

Post hearing coverage: Trump's pick for U.N. ambassador is Elise Stefanik. Here's what to know

Wednesday, 1/22
9 a.m.: Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget

Thursday, 1/23
9 a.m.: Brooke Rollins, Agriculture Department

Wednesday, 1/29
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services Department

Post hearing coverage: RFK Jr., Trump's health secretary pick, grilled about vaccines and abortion

Thursday, 1/30

Kash Patel, FBI

Post hearing coverage: Kash Patel is asked to explain incendiary statements in FBI head confirmation hearing

Thursday, 1/30

Tulsi Gabbard, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Post hearing coverage: Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's intel chief pick, grilled on Snowden, Russia and Syria