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Live: Fact-checking Trump’s Cabinet nominees’ Senate confirmation hearings

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Kristi Noem sworn in Senate confirmation hearing for DHS secretary 1-17-2025 — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Homeland Security, is sworn in for her Senate confirmation hearing, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP)

By PolitiFact Staff
January 14, 2025

Starting Jan. 14, the Republican-led U.S. Senate plans to hold hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, with the aim of confirming their appointments directly after Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

PolitiFact will provide fact-checking and analysis on some of these public reviews for officials who are in line to run, for example, the State, Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security, Energy, Interior, Transportation and Veterans Affairs Departments and the CIA.

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