President-elect Donald Trump has announced Cabinet and other senior-level appointments that likely will face challenges in implementing some of the returning president’s promised reforms.
Some key appointments—including treasury secretary and secretary of health and human services—have yet to be announced by Trump.
Wednesday afternoon, Trump announced he would name Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., as attorney general, the nation’s chief law enforcement official as head of the Justice Department. When Trump battled the Justice Department in his first term, Gaetz was one of his staunchest defenders as a member of the House Judiciary Committee.
Trump named Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.—a rival in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries—as his secretary of state.
State Department bureaucrats are likely to show “inherent resistance” to whoever Trump names to…
