Everything You Need To Know About the Confirmation Hearings of Trump’s Cabinet Nominees

Democrats will try to turn the hearings into unsanctioned courtrooms, but Trump is poised to win in the end.

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President Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, at the Capitol on December 4, 2024. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

The circus is coming to town, but this one doesn’t have just three rings. Try 15. The 119th Congress is set to hold confirmation hearings beginning this week for President Trump’s nominations to head the 15 Cabinet positions. Republicans will control the Senate 53 to 47 seats once Jim Justice of West Virginia is sworn in later this month and Governor DeWine appoints a senator to fill Vice President Vance’s seat.

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