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Key figures in the next Trump administration.
Senator Marco Rubio is expected to be named the next secretary of state.Credit…Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
Plans emerged for Trump’s second administration
In the days after his election victory, President-elect Donald Trump has already settled on some of the top figures of his administration. He is expected to announce Senator Marco Rubio of Florida as his secretary of state, people familiar with his thinking said yesterday.
Stephen Miller, an immigration hard-liner and Trump adviser, is taking over policy planning for the transition and is expected to be named deputy chief of staff, according to people briefed on the matter. Miller is expected to work closely with Thomas Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whom the president-elect named on Sunday as his “border czar.”
Trump has already said that he would nominate Lee Zeldin, a former congressman from New York, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a position that is expected to be central to Trump’s plans to dismantle landmark climate regulations. Elise Stefanik, a congresswoman from New York and staunch supporter of Israel, will be his ambassador to the U.N., he said. (Read about other key Trump insiders.)
Related: Trump will begin his next presidency by reinstating several executive orders that President Biden revoked, Susie Wiles, the next White House chief of staff, privately told Republican donors yesterday.
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