(Alphabetical by Agency)
Department of Labor
Deputy Secretary of Labor
Keith Sonderling
Former Vice-Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | Former Acting Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor
Sonderling was the vice-chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the acting administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor during the first Trump administration. After his time at the Trump administration, he stayed at the EEOC as a commissioner and served as an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School.
Chief Financial Officer
David Brian Castillo
Financial Advisor at Edward Jones
Castillo has been a financial advisor at Edward Jones since 2008. In 2010, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in Washington’s Third Congressional District. Before joining Edward Jones, Castillo served as chief of staff for the State of Washington.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program Operations of the Employee Benefits – nominee
Daniel Aronowitz
President of ENCORE Fiduciary
Aronowitz was the president of ENCORE Fiduciary, an underwriter of insurance designed to protect employee benefits plans and trustees from fiduciary liability. Before that, Aronowitz was a partner at Shaw Pittman LLP and then the president of Ullico Casualty Company.
Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health -nominee
David Keeling
Former Director of Global Road and Transportation Safety at Amazon
Keeling was the vice president of global health and safety at UPS, where he worked for 18 years before working as the director of Global Road and Transportation Safety at Amazon.
Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health Administration – nominee
Wayne Palmer
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for the MSHA
Palmer was deputy assistant secretary for the MSHA during the first Trump administration. Recently, he has served as a cleared advisor for the Department of Commerce’s Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Critical Minerals and Nonferrous Metals (ITAC 5) and as the executive vice president at the Essential Minerals Association.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Chief Financial Officer
Gregory Autry
Associate Provost for Space Commercialization and Strategy at the University of Central Florida
Most recently, Autry served as the associate provost for Space Commercialization and Strategy at the University of Central Florida. He co-authored two books with Peter Navarro: “Red Moon Rising: How America Will Beat China on the Final Frontier” and “Death by China.” During the first Trump administration, Autry served as NASA’s chief financial officer and was a member of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) at the FAA.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator – nominee
Jared Isaacman
Pilot | Astronaut | CEO of Shift4 | Co Founder of Draken International
Isaacman, a tech billionaire, became the first private astronaut to conduct a spacewalk, which was made possible by a SpaceX capsule. He is the founder and CEO of Shift4, an online payment company, and is the co-founder and former CEO of Draken International.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
National Counter Terrorism Center, Director – nominee
Joe Kent
Former Green Barret and Congressional Candidate
Kent is a former army special forces soldier, green beret, and CIA officer. He enlisted in the US Army as an infantryman when he was 18 years old. He is a two-time republican candidate for a congressional seat in southwest Washington State. His wife, Shannon Kent, was killed while serving in Syria in 2019. He remarried in 2023.
