US president-elect Donald Trump is filling key posts in his second administration, and the team is shaping up much differently than his first as he prioritises loyalists for top jobs.
Mr Trump was bruised and hampered by internal squabbles during his initial term in office. Now he appears focused on remaking the US government in his own image.
Some of his choices could face difficult confirmation battles even with Republicans in control of the US Senate.
Here is a look at who he has selected so far.
9. Chief of Staff: Susie Wiles
Ms Wiles, 67, was a senior adviser to Mr Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and its de facto manager. She has a background in Florida politics, helping Ron DeSantis win his first race for Florida governor. Six years later, she was key to Mr Trump’s defeat of him in the 2024 Republican primary. Ms Wiles’ hire was Mr Trump’s first major decision as president-elect and one that could be a defining test of his incoming administration considering her close relationship with him. Ms Wiles is said to have earned Mr Trump’s trust in part by guiding what was the most disciplined of Mr Trump’s three presidential campaigns. Ms Wiles was able to help keep Mr Trump on track as few others have, not by criticising his impulses, but by winning his respect by demonstrating his success after taking her advice. | The Washington Post via Getty Im
10. National Security Adviser: Mike Waltz
Mr Waltz is a three-term Republican congressman from east-central Florida. A former Army Green Beret, he served multiple tours in Afghanistan and also worked in the Pentagon as a policy adviser when Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates were defence chiefs. He is considered hawkish on China, and called for a US boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to its involvement in the origin of Covid-19 and its mistreatment of the minority Muslim Uighur population. | Getty Images
11. Border Tsar: Tom Homan
Mr Homan, 62, has been tasked with Mr Trump’s top priority of carrying out the largest deportation operation in the nation’s history. He served under Mr Trump in his first administration leading US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and he was widely expected to be offered a position related to the border once Mr Trump won the election. Mr Homan said at a July conference in Washington that he would be willing to “run the biggest deportation operation this country’s ever seen”. Democrats have criticised Mr Homan for defending Mr Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy on border crossings during his first administration, which led to the separation of thousands of parents and children seeking asylum at the border. | AFP via Getty Images
12. Ambassador to Israel: Mike Huckabee
Mr Huckabee is a staunch defender of Israel and his intended nomination comes as Mr Trump has promised to align US foreign policy more closely with Israel’s interests as it wages wars against the Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah. Mr Huckabee, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in 2008 and 2016, has been a popular figure among evangelical Christian conservatives, many of whom support Israel due to Old Testament writings that Jews are God’s chosen people and that Israel is their rightful homeland. Mr Trump has been praised by some in this important Republican voting bloc for moving the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Mr Huckabee has rejected a Palestinian homeland in territory occupied by Israel, calling for a so-called “one-state solution”. | Getty Images