section_path: Second presidency (2025–present)/Personnel, 2025–present
section_name: Personnel, 2025–present
paragraph_text: Personnel, 2025–present
  
  In his second term, Trump selected cabinet members with personal loyalty to him, with the "focus on loyalty over subject-matter expertise". In February 2025, the White House stated that Elon Musk was a special government employee. Trump gave Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to many federal government agencies. Musk's teams operated in eighteen departments and agencies in the administration's first month, including in the Treasury Department's $5 trillion payment system, the Small Business Administration, the Office of Personnel Management, and the General Services Administration. He nominated or appointed 23 former Fox News employees to his administration.