This is part of Hello, Trumpworld, Slate’s reluctant guide to the people who will be calling the shots now—at least for as long as they last in Washington.
Another potentially tense hearing is expected as Kristi Noem, Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security, appears before Friday’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Meanwhile, hearings are not yet scheduled for other Trump picks, including some of the most contentious:
Surveying all of the late-MAGA freaks and burnouts who are scheduled to join Donald Trump’s second administration (Mehmet Oz, Tulsi Gabbard, Kari Lake), you might get the idea that the once and future president intends to surround himself exclusively with people he most recently remembers from television.