The Senate has scheduled hearings for a dozen of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s picks for some of the most significant positions in his new government.
Many of these candidates have previously visited Capitol Hill for meetings with individual senators whose support they may need in the final confirmation vote. Now they will appear before Senate committees that oversee the agencies that they have been selected to lead.
Here’s the schedule for this week:
Tuesday
9:30 a.m.: Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense
Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, kicked off the confirmation hearings on Tuesday. He had a troubled path to his hearing, grappling with accusations of excessive drinking and an allegation of sexual assault that critics have used to question his fitness to lead the Defense Department, one of the most important posts in the federal government. Senators grilled Mr. Hegseth about many of those accusations during a tense, four-hour hearing on Tuesday.
Wednesday
9 a.m.: Kristi Noem, secretary of homeland security
Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota is a staunch ally of Mr. Trump who has vowed to fulfill the president-elect’s promises of stricter border controls and mass deportations of unauthorized immigrants if confirmed to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Ms. Noem has previously used her authority as governor to intervene in the national immigration crisis, spending millions of taxpayer dollars to deploy the South Dakota National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border.
9:30 a.m.: Pam Bondi, attorney general
Pam Bondi, a lobbyist and longtime loyalist to Mr. Trump, made her name in Florida politics as the state’s first female attorney general. After endorsing Mr. Trump in the 2016 Republican primary, Ms. Bondi joined Mr. Trump’s legal defense team during his first impeachment in 2019, and later supported Mr. Trump’s fabricated claims of election fraud after his defeat to Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the 2020 election. As attorney general, Ms. Bondi would oversee the Justice Department and its complement of federal prosecutors.
10 a.m.: Sean Duffy, secretary of transportation
Former Representative Sean Duffy of Wisconsin, a former television host on Fox Business, served in Congress from 2011 to 2019 before retiring to care for a newborn daughter with a birth defect. Mr. Duffy, who originally rose to fame in reality television, would oversee the nation’s railways, airlines and transportation infrastructure if confirmed to lead the Transportation Department.
10 a.m.: John Ratcliffe, C.I.A. director
John Ratcliffe, a former Texas congressman who previously served as the director of national intelligence for Mr. Trump, would be tasked with leading one of the most prestigious and capable intelligence agencies in the government. The position would also give Mr. Ratcliffe an influential position on matters of national intelligence. As a congressman, Mr. Ratcliffe worked to burnish his credentials as a Trump loyalist by helping pursue investigations into President Biden’s son Hunter.
10 a.m.: Marco Rubio, secretary of state
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida is a onetime political rival of Mr. Trump who has become a key adviser on foreign policy issues. Mr. Rubio, once a top contender to be Mr. Trump’s running mate last year, is a foreign policy hawk who has taken a hard-line approach to China — a stance that will likely influence his leadership of America’s diplomatic efforts abroad.
10 a.m.: Chris Wright, secretary of energy
Chris Wright, the chief executive of a natural gas company based in Denver, has used television and other media appearances to evangelize for the fossil fuel industry. The Energy Department is primarily charged with ensuring the safety of the country’s nuclear arsenal, but under President Biden the agency has also helped lead the energy transition from fossil fuels to wind, solar and nuclear energy.
1 p.m.: Russell T. Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget
Russell T. Vought, a key figure in the conservative policy blueprint Project 2025, led the Office of Management and Budget in Mr. Trump’s first term, and has been tapped to do so again. Mr. Vought, if confirmed, would oversee the White House budget and help determine whether federal agencies comport with the president’s policies.
Thursday
10 a.m.: Scott Turner, secretary of housing and urban development
Scott Turner, a former football player who served as a midlevel official in the first Trump administration, has been elevated as Mr. Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mr. Turner, who had a nine-year career in the N.F.L. and also worked as a motivational speaker, is one of the few Black people chosen to fill a senior position for the administration.
10 a.m.: Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Former Representative Lee Zeldin of New York, who made an unsuccessful run for governor in the state in 2022, has been tapped by Mr. Trump to carry out his promises to dismantle landmark climate regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Zeldin is an avid Trump supporter who voted against certifying the results of the 2020 election.
10 a.m.: Doug Burgum, interior secretary
Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota made a $1 billion fortune in the tech industry before running for governor in his home state. Mr. Burgum, who has longstanding ties to fossil fuel companies and acted as a liaison between the Trump campaign and the oil executives who donated heavily to it, would be in charge of managing vast swaths of federal land and coastal waters in the Interior Department — as well as leases of those lands for oil and gas drilling.
10:30 a.m.: Scott Bessent, Treasury secretary
Scott Bessent is a billionaire hedge fund manager who has been a central economic adviser to Mr. Trump as the president-elect created a campaign agenda centered on raising tariffs on imported goods. Mr. Bessent, who will oversee some of America’s most powerful economic levers in the Treasury Department, has called for rolling back government subsidies, deregulating the economy and raising domestic energy production.
