Former Florida Attorney-General Pam Bondi has been a fixture in Trump's orbit for years, and a regular defender of the president-elect on news programs amid his legal woes. She's likely to face many questions over her public statements criticizing the criminal cases against Trump.
“The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted — the bad ones,” Bondi said in a 2023 Fox News appearance. “The investigators will be investigated.”
Bondi said members of the so-called deep state were “hiding in the shadows” during Trump's first term, "but now they have a spotlight on them, and they can all be investigated.”
As Florida attorney general, Bondi led a challenge brought by more than two dozen states to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately upheld the health care law. Bondi also fought to uphold Florida's ban on same-sex marriage — arguing that marriage should be defined by each state.
One of her top priorities as attorney general was going after so-called pill mills, or clinics that hand out large amounts of prescription painkillers and helped fuel the country's opioid crisis.
Meanwhile, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is promising to implement President-elect Donald Trump’s "America First" vision as secretary of state, vowing in his confirmation hearing Wednesday that the incoming administration will forge a new path by placing American interests “above all else.”
“Placing our core national interests above all else is not isolationism," Rubio will tell the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to an opening statement obtained by The Associated Press. "It is the commonsense realization that a foreign policy centered on our national interest is not some outdated relic.”
“The postwar global order is not just obsolete; it is now a weapon being used against us,” Rubio says.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday will also question Trump's pick to lead the CIA on his vision for America's premier spy agency.
John Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence during Trump's first term, is a former federal prosecutor and conservative member of Congress representing a district in Texas. He was a fierce defender of Trump during his first impeachment proceedings in the House.
