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Amid firings and authorities shake-ups, the Trump medication has repeatedly been assigning further occupation roles to Cabinet members and different officials, Fox News Digital found.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was charged connected May 1 with serving arsenic Trump's national information advisor aft the president announced helium had nominated erstwhile National Security Council main Mike Waltz to service arsenic the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Rubio's roles successful the medication present see starring the State Department; serving arsenic acting archivist of the United States aft Trump ousted a Biden-era appointee; serving arsenic acting head of the U.S. Agency for International Development arsenic the admin works to dissolve the autarkic bureau by September; and taking the helm arsenic the interim nationalist information advisor.
But Rubio is not unsocial successful taking connected aggregate roles wrong Trump's 2nd administration. Fox News Digital looks backmost connected the assorted Trump Cabinet members and officials who are wearing aggregate hats arsenic the president works to realign the national authorities to way with his "America First" policies.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of the VA Doug Collins, President Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel. (Getty Images)
Marco Rubio
Secretary of State Marco Rubio serves successful 4 antithetic roles with the administration. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
Rubio and the Trump medication person travel nether occurrence from Democrats for the caput of authorities holding aggregate high-profile roles successful the 2nd administration, including Democrats sounding disconnected connected the nationalist information assembly shake-up connected Sunday quality shows.
"There’s nary mode helium tin bash that and bash it well, particularly since there’s specified incompetence implicit astatine DOD with Pete Hegseth being caput of defence and conscionable the hollowing retired of the apical leadership," Illinois Democrat Sen. Tammy Duckworth said connected CBS’s "Face the Nation." "There’s nary mode helium tin transportation each that full load connected his own."
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"I don’t cognize however anybody could bash these 2 large jobs," Democrat Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said Sunday connected CNN’s "State of the Union."
When asked astir the inclination of Trump officials wearing aggregate enactment hats, the White House reflected successful remark to Fox News Digital connected erstwhile President Joe Biden's "disaster of a Cabinet."
"Democrats cheered connected Joe Biden’s catastrophe of a Cabinet arsenic it launched the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, opened the confederate borderline to migrant criminals, weaponized the justness strategy against governmental opponents, and more," White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital. "President Trump has filled his medication with galore qualified, talented individuals helium trusts to negociate galore responsibilities."
The Trump medication has antecedently brushed disconnected interest implicit Rubio holding aggregate roles, astir notably juggling some his State Department enactment and serving arsenic acting nationalist information advisor. Similarly, erstwhile President Richard Nixon successful 1973 named then-National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger to simultaneously service arsenic caput of state.
"You request a squad subordinate who is precise honorable with the president and the elder team, not idiosyncratic trying to physique an empire oregon wield a weapon oregon thrust their ain agenda. He is singularly focused connected delivering the president’s agenda," an medication authoritative told Politico.
Rubio's aggregate nationalist information roles travel arsenic warfare continues betwixt Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Gaza, and precocious launched attacks from India connected Pakistan.
"I americium monitoring the concern betwixt India and Pakistan closely," Rubio said successful a Tuesday X post. "I echo @POTUS's comments earlier contiguous that this hopefully ends rapidly and volition proceed to prosecute some Indian and Pakistani enactment towards a peaceful resolution."
As Rubio juggles aggregate roles, the Trump administration's overseas policies person intimately progressive peculiar envoys, astir notably Steve Witkoff, Trump's peculiar envoy to the Middle East.
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Witkoff is simply a erstwhile existent property tycoon and longtime state of Trump's whose absorption successful the Trump medication has been connected negotiating with Russia amid its warfare against Ukraine and starring talks with Iran regarding its atomic program. Witkoff was notably credited with helping unafraid the merchandise of U.S. schoolteacher Marc Fogel from a Russian situation successful February.
Fox News Digital reached retired to the State Department for remark connected Rubio's aggregate roles but did not person a response.
Kash Patel
Kash Patel concisely served arsenic acting manager of the ATF and FBI director. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
FBI Director Kash Patel, who railed against the "deep state" and vowed to portion corruption from the national instrumentality enforcement bureau up of his confirmation, was concisely charged with overseeing the of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) successful February aft the Biden-era manager resigned successful January.
Patel was aboriginal replaced by Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll arsenic acting ATF manager successful a occupation alteration that was publically reported successful April.
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"Director Kash Patel was concisely designated ATF manager portion awaiting Senate confirmations, a standard, short-term move. Dozens of akin re-designations person occurred crossed the national government," the White House told Reuters successful April. "Director Patel is present excelling successful his relation astatine the FBI and delivering outstanding results."
Daniel Driscoll
Daniel Driscoll (Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press)
Driscoll was sworn successful arsenic the 26th caput of the Army successful February. The caput of the service is simply a senior-level civilian authoritative charged with overseeing the absorption of the Army and besides acts arsenic an advisor to the caput of defence successful matters related to the Army.
It was reported successful April that Driscoll was named acting ATF director, replacing Patel successful that role.
"Mr. Driscoll is liable for the oversight of the agency’s ngo to support communities from convulsive criminals, transgression organizations, and the amerciable trafficking of firearms, explosives, and contraband. Under his leadership, the ATF works to enforce national laws, guarantee nationalist safety, and supply captious enactment successful the probe of firearms-related crimes and home and planetary transgression enterprises," his ATF biography reads.
Ahead of Trump taking office, Republican Reps. Eric Burlison of Missouri and Lauren Boebert of Colorado introduced authorities to abolish the ATF, saying the bureau has worked to portion Second Amendment rights from U.S. citizens.
The ATF has been tasked with assisting the Department of Homeland Security successful its deportation efforts nether the Trump administration.
Doug Collins
Former Georgia Republican Rep. Doug Collins was sworn successful arsenic the Trump administration's caput of Veterans Affairs successful February. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Former Georgia Republican Rep. Doug Collins was sworn-in arsenic the Trump administration's caput of Veterans Affairs successful February, a Cabinet-level presumption tasked with overseeing the section and its ngo of providing health, acquisition and fiscal benefits to subject veterans.
Days aft his confirmation arsenic VA secretary, Trump tapped Collins to temporarily pb 2 oversight agencies: the Office of Government Ethics and the Office of Special Counsel.
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The Office of Government Ethics is charged with overseeing the executive branch's morals program, including mounting morals standards for the authorities and monitoring morals compliance crossed national agencies and departments.
The Office of Special Counsel is charged with overseeing and protecting the national government's merit system, astir notably ensuring national whistleblowers don't look retaliation for sounding the alarm connected an contented they've experienced. The bureau besides has an established unafraid transmission to let national employees to stroke the whistle connected alleged wrongdoing.
The Office of Special Counsel besides enforces the Hatch Act, which bans executive subdivision staffers, but the president and vice president, from engaging in definite forms of governmental activity.
Russell Vought
Russell Vought serves arsenic manager of the Office of Management and Budget. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Trump named his erstwhile manager of the Office of Management and Budget nether his archetypal administration, Russell Vought, to the aforesaid relation successful his 2nd administration. Vought was confirmed arsenic the national government's fund main successful February.
Days later, Vought was besides named the acting manager of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
The CFPB is an autarkic authorities bureau charged with protecting consumers from unfair fiscal practices successful the backstage sector. It was created successful 2010 nether the Obama medication aft the fiscal clang successful 2008. Democrat Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren primitively projected and advocated for the instauration of the agency.
The CFPB came nether fierce probe from the Department of Government Efficiency successful February, with wide terminations rocking the bureau earlier the simplification successful unit inaugural was tied up successful court.
Ric Grenell
Kennedy Center President Ric Grenell besides serves arsenic peculiar statesmanlike envoy for peculiar missions of the United States. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump's erstwhile ambassador to Germany and acting manager of nationalist quality nether his archetypal term, a brace of roles held astatine abstracted times successful the archetypal administration, presently serves arsenic president of the Kennedy Center and peculiar statesmanlike envoy for peculiar missions of the United States.
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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts serves arsenic the nationalist taste halfway of the U.S. Trump notably serves arsenic the center's seat of the board, with Grenell saying the halfway volition spot a "golden age" of the arts during Trump's 2nd medication done productions and concerts that Americans really privation to spot aft years of the performing arts halfway moving successful the red.
Trump named Grenell arsenic his peculiar statesmanlike envoy for peculiar missions to the United States successful December earlier his inauguration, saying Grenell volition "work in immoderate of the hottest spots astir the world, including Venezuela and North Korea."
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In this role, Grenell helped pb the medication done its effect to the wildfires that tore done Southern California successful the past days of the Biden medication done the opening days of the Trump administration.
Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House for remark connected the medication officials moving aggregate high-profile roles arsenic opposed to appointing oregon nominating different qualified individuals but did not person a response.
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