President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration is beginning to take shape.

After beating Vice President Kamala Harris in last week’s election, Trump has made a handful of picks to join his administration, including a couple in his Cabinet. 

Here’s who is in so far.

Susie Wiles, chief of staff

A longtime Republican strategist, Wiles co-chaired Trump’s latest campaign and was rewarded with a critical Cabinet role advising the president, helping execute his agenda, and balancing his competing political and policy priorities. She will become the first woman ever to occupy the position.

A longtime Republican aide, Wiles has worked on presidential campaigns dating back to Ronald Reagan’s 1980 run. Wiles ran Trump’s campaigns in Florida in 2016 and 2020, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' successful bid for office in 2018. Before that, she ran Rick Scott’s 2010 campaign for Florida governor and briefly served as the manager of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman’s 2012 presidential campaign.

“Susie is tough, smart, innovative, and is universally admired and respected,” Trump said in a statement Friday. “Susie will continue to work tirelessly to Make America Great Again. It is a well deserved honor to have Susie as the first-ever female Chief of Staff in United States history. I have no doubt that she will make our country proud.”

Tom Homan (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Tom Homan, ‘border czar’

Trump announced Sunday he has chosen Homan, who served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during his first administration, to be “in charge of our Nation’s Borders.” The president-elect referred to the position as, unofficially, “Border Czar.”

In addition to overseeing the southern and northern borders and “maritime, and aviation security,” Trump said Homan “will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin,” a central part of his agenda.

He says he had “no doubt” Homan “will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.”

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Elise Stefanik, ambassador to the United Nations

Trump said Monday he will nominate the New York congresswoman to be the United States’ top envoy at the United Nations, a Cabinet position.

As Republican conference chair, Stefanik, is the fourth highest-ranking GOP member in the House. She has represented New York’s 21st Congressional District, which covers much of the northeastern part of the state, since 2015. When she first won at age 30, she became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress at the time.

“I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations,” Trump said. “Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter.”

Stephen Miller (AP Photo, File)
Stephen Miller (AP Photo, File)

Stephen Miller, deputy chief of policy

Miller is one of Trump’s longest-serving aides, dating back to his first campaign for the White House. He was a senior adviser in Trump’s first term and has been a central figure in many of his policy decisions, particularly on immigration, including Trump's move to separate thousands of immigrant families as a deterrence program in 2018.

Since leaving the White House, Miller has served as the president of America First Legal, an organization of former Trump advisers fashioned as a conservative version of the American Civil Liberties Union, challenging the Biden administration, media companies, universities and others over issues such as freedom of speech and religion and national security.

Confirming the appointment, Vice President-elect JD Vance posted a message of congratulations on Monday to Miller on X and said, “This is another fantastic pick by the president.”

The announcement was first reported by CNN.

President-elect Donald Trump greets Lee Zeldin as he arrives to speak at a campaign event at a farm, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, in Smithton, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President-elect Donald Trump greets Lee Zeldin as he arrives to speak at a campaign event at a farm, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, in Smithton, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
 

Lee Zeldin, Environmental Protection Agency administrator

 

Zeldin was tapped by Trump on Monday to be his nominee for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, a Cabinet-level position that requires Senate confirmation. The New York Republican served in Congress for eight years, representing New York's 1st Congressional District on Long Island from 2015 to 2022 and serving as part of Trump's defense team during his first impeachment hearings.

“It is an honor to join President Trump’s Cabinet as EPA Administrator,” Zeldin wrote a social media post. “We will restore US energy dominance, revitalize our auto industry to bring back American jobs, and make the US the global leader of AI. We will do so while protecting access to clean air and water.”

The Long Island native and U.S. Army Reserve officer ran for governor of New York in 2022 and was narrowly defeated by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul in the closest gubernatorial contest the state has seen in 28 years. As a candidate, he pressed for the reversal of New York’s ban on natural gas drilling.

Both in Congress and after, Zeldin has been a fierce ally for Trump and has spent the last two years as a strong advocate for getting Republicans elected to office, recently barnstorming his home state to stump for Republican candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives. While still in office, he voted against the certification of the 2020 election in Arizona and Pennsylvania after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

"Lee, with a very strong legal background, has been a true fighter for America First policies. He will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, including the cleanest air and water on the planet," Trump said in a statement. "He will set new standards on environmental review and maintenance, that will allow the United States to grow in a healthy and well-structured way."

"I have known Lee Zeldin for a long time, and have watched him handle, brilliantly, some extremely difficult and complex situations," Trump added.

While in Congress, Zeldin did not serve on committees with oversight of environmental policy.

Trump and congressional Republicans have pledged to undo many of the Biden administration's national climate policies that are most reducing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The president-elect has summed up his energy policy as “drill, baby, drill” and pledged to dismantle what he calls Democrats’ “green new scam” in favor of boosting production of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal, the main causes of climate change.

Spectrum News' Luke Parsnow and the Associated Press contributed to this report.