Trump before taking power
These decisions are telling
Updated 11/12/2024 – 8:46 a.mReading time: 7 minutes
The second US administration under Donald Trump is scheduled to be sworn in on January 20th. His first personnel decisions foreshadow Trump’s future policies.
The future US government under Donald Trump is taking shape. The Republican has already made the first personnel decisions. Controversial figures such as anti-vaccination activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will also have a seat at his cabinet table. The selection of his comrades-in-arms and followers provides the first indications of what policies Trump might pursue in the future. t-online gives an overview of the state of affairs in Washington.
They are already set as new Trump employees
The senator known for his tough stance on China and Iran Marco Rubio According to media reports, he will become the next US Secretary of State. President-elect Donald Trump has decided on his Republican party colleague Rubio, even if he could still change his mind, reported the New York Times and the NBC broadcaster, citing informed people.
Rubio has been in the US Senate since 2010 and unsuccessfully tried to become the Republican presidential candidate in 2016 – but failed in the primary campaign against Trump, who insulted him at the time. This year he was said to have been on the shortlist for the running mate before Trump chose JD Vance. The decision in favor of Rubio is also seen as a signal to the Latino community in the USA, the majority of whom voted for Trump. Marco Rubio is the child of Cuban immigrants who fled the Castro regime.
Donald Trump wants the important post of national security advisor with the Republican Rep. Mike Waltz occupy. Waltz is known as an advocate of a tough stance toward China and called for a change in US policy toward Ukraine. Security adviser is a key foreign policy position that is filled without Senate approval. In his first term, Trump had four national security advisers.
Waltz, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida, has been a supporter of the future president for years. Last year, in an opinion piece on Fox News, he wrote about the Republican majority in the House of Representatives: “The era of blank checks for Ukraine from Congress is over.” He argued that European countries needed to make an even greater contribution. Waltz, who served in the US Army for 21 years, is known as a foreign policy hardliner but also as an isolationist who wants to keep the US out of military conflicts.
During his election campaign, Trump promised a rigorous immigration policy and the mass deportation of illegal immigrants. His former companion should implement this policy Tom Homanwhom Trump appointed “border czar.” In this role, Homan will be responsible for all US land, maritime and airspace borders. Homan is also supposed to organize the deportation of illegal immigrants.
Homan headed the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) for a year and a half during Trump’s first term in office. At the time, he appeared as an advocate for a controversial practice that resulted in children of illegal immigrant parents being held separately in custody at the border with Mexico. Only after massive criticism did Trump end the practice of family separations. After that, it sometimes took years to reunite the families. The hardliner Homan was also considered a candidate for the post of Homeland Security Secretary, who has extensive authority in internal security issues.
