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 the job, said Victoria Coates, vice president of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation.

“The top priority of the new secretary [of state] should be to ensure that the department is responsive to presidential directives, not resistant to them,” Coates, a deputy national security adviser during the first Trump administration, told The Daily Signal.

“The secretary should make crystal clear that he or she is implementing President Trump’s policies, not continuing on past practices,” Coates said. “One way to do this would be to significantly expand the roster of political appointee ambassadors, and give them political appointee staff members as well as foreign service officers. Another would be to zero-out all foreign assistance in the next budget and require all requests for funding to be thoroughly reviewed.”

Also on Trump’s foreign policy team will be former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, nominated to be U.S. ambassador to Israel; Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., nominated to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; and New York businessman Steven Witkoff, appointed as U.S. envoy to the Middle East.

Trump also named Fox News........

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