The document lists nominations sent to the Senate on August 7, 2026, including candidates for diplomatic posts in countries such as Tonga, Madagascar, Chad, Nicaragua, and Benin. It also includes nominees for positions at the Departments of Transportation, the Interior, and Health and Human Services, the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, and a newly created Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic position.

This is a nominations list sent to the Senate announcing six individuals nominated to federal positions, including two Ambassadors (to Rwanda and Malaysia), two United States Attorneys (Eastern District of Oklahoma; District of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands), and three U.S. Marshals (Northern District of Alabama; District of Columbia) and an Assistant Attorney General nominee. The notice specifies term lengths where given (four years for the U.S. Marshal and U.S. Attorney positions) and lists nominees' names and home states.

The document is a nomination sent to the Senate. The order directs federal agencies to process the nomination of Konstantinos Ligris, of Florida, to be an Assistant Attorney General, submitting his name to the Senate for confirmation.

This nominations notice submits multiple individuals to the Senate for confirmation to various federal positions, including ambassadors to El Salvador, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Equatorial Guinea, Moldova, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Trinidad and Tobago, Paraguay, Montenegro, and others; agency leaders such as Inspector General of the Department of State, Assistant Secretary positions at Health and Human Services and State, Director of the Indian Health Service for a four-year term, Chairman of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals for six years, and a Consumer Product Safety Commission commissioner for a seven-year term starting October 27, 2024. The list also includes nominations for U.S. Attorney for the

The document is a nominations and withdrawals notice listing individuals the President has nominated to various federal positions and others whose nominations have been withdrawn, all sent to the Senate on April 27, 2026. It lists nominees and their intended offices—Ambassador to Australia; deputy and assistant positions at OMB, HHS, HUD, Treasury, Defense, State, Commerce; board appointments to the Inter-American Foundation with specific term expirations; and two U.S. Circuit Court judicial nominees—plus five named withdrawals of previously sent nominations.

This nominations document lists individuals the President has sent to the Senate for confirmation to various federal positions on April 21, 2026, including nominees for Director of the Peace Corps, Ambassador to Belize, Inspector General at the Department of Justice, a U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama (four-year term), Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Information and Technology. It directs the Senate to consider these specific nominations for confirmation under its advice-and-consent authority.

The order directs federal agencies to consider and process nominations sent to the Senate for judicial and court positions, including nominations for Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia (three 15-year terms) and multiple United States District Judge vacancies in the Northern District of Ohio, Southern District of Texas (two nominees), and Southern District of Florida. The submission lists the nominees by name and jurisdiction dated April 14, 2026.

The order directs federal agencies to process and consider the listed presidential nominations sent to the Senate for confirmation, including a nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security, two U.S. Marshals for specified districts with four-year terms, three ambassadorial nominees to Guatemala, Tanzania, and the OSCE (with rank of Ambassador), and an Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs. These nominations were submitted on March 9, 2026, and designate the individual names and offices for Senate advice and consent.

The order directs federal agencies to nominate individuals for various roles within the U.S. judicial system. Andrew Benson has been nominated to be United States Attorney for the District of Maine, Megan Blair Benton to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri, and William Boyle to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, among others. Each nominee is set to serve a term of four years in their respective roles.

The order directs the Senate to consider the following nominations: Daniel E. Burrows, of Colorado, for the position of Assistant Attorney General, replacing Aaron Reitz; Stevan Pearce, of New Mexico, as Director of the Bureau of Land Management, replacing Tracy Stone-Manning; and Douglas Weaver, of Maryland, as a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the remainder of the term expiring June 30, 2026, replacing Annie Caputo.

The order directs federal agencies to make several nominations and appointments. Daniel Bonham is to be Assistant Secretary of Labor, Mark Ditlevson as Assistant Secretary of Defense, and Paul Ferguson as United States Marshal for the Northern District of West Virginia. William Hewes III is to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Benjamin Landa as Ambassador to Hungary, and Arvind Raman as Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology. Robert Rotter, Daniel Satterlee, and David St. Pierre are to be United States Marshals for their respective districts. Jennifer Wicks McNamara is to be Ambassador to Vietnam. The nomination of Mark Brnovich as Ambassador to Serbia has been withdrawn.

The order directs federal agencies to nominate several individuals to various positions. Erwin Antoni is nominated as Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, for a term of four years. Laura DiBella and Robert Harvey are nominated as Federal Maritime Commissioners for terms expiring in 2028 and 2029 respectively. Steven Haines is nominated as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George Holding as United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Sriprakash Kothari as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Ryan McCormack is nominated as Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, Peter Metzger as Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of the Treasury, and Brian David Miller as United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania for

The order directs the Senate to consider several nominations, including Tammy Bruce to serve as Deputy Representative of the United States to the United Nations and other UN roles, Brent Christensen as Ambassador to Bangladesh, Sergio Gor as Ambassador to India, Stephanie Hallett as Ambassador to Bahrain, James Holtsnider as Ambassador to Jordan, and William Long as Ambassador to Iceland. Stephen Miran is nominated for a position on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The order also includes nominations for several U.S. District Judges and Associate Judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

The order directs the Senate to consider the nomination of Edward Forst, from Florida, to the position of Administrator of General Services, following the resignation of Robin Carnahan.

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm and will begin firing hundreds of scientists. The Office of Research and Development provides the research that backstops almost all of the agency's policies and regulations. The office had around 1,100 employees at the beginning of the Trump II administration, but more than 300 have already left, having accepted DOGE deferred resignation offers. The department didn't say how many of the remaining 830 employees would ultimately be let go.

The nominations sent to the Senate include Nicholas Adams of Florida for Ambassador to Malaysia, Eric Meyer of California for Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Sean O'Neill of Virginia for Ambassador to Thailand, and Julie Stufft of Ohio for Ambassador to Kazakhstan.

The memo notes the nomination of numerous individuals to various federal positions. These include Ademola Adewale-Sadik as United States Director of the African Development Bank for a five-year term, Lee Beaman and others to the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority for terms expiring in 2028, 2029, and 2030, and various appointees as United States Attorneys for terms of four years in multiple districts. New positions include James Caggy as an Assistant Secretary of Defense and Rosario Palmieri as an Assistant Secretary of Labor.

Hundreds of Voice of America employees received layoff notices this week, effectively shutting down the news outlet that had been in service providing American-produced news and info around the world since WWII. Among the 639 employees let go were employees of VOA's persian-language service who had been brought back from administrative leave a week ago following Israel's bombardment of Iran. All told, 1,400 people have been let go from VOA and its parent agency. Kari Lake, the Trump II administration appointee overseeing the agency, blasted it as a "bloated, unaccountable bureaucracy ... riddled with dysfunction, bias, and waste. That ends now."

The memo notifies the Senate of new appointees and nominations. Notably, Riley Barnes is appointed as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Alan Boehme is appointed as an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and Karen Brazell is appointed as Under Secretary for Benefits of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Additionally, several individuals are nominated for roles as U.S. District Judges for various districts, and others are appointed to various roles within the Department of State, Department of Defense, and other federal entities.

All 12 board members of the Fullbright program that promotes educational exchanges around the globe resigned because of what they said is political interference in the program's operations. Exiting board members point to the State Department's cancellation of 200 scholarships as an example of the administration's illegal, political interference. Those scholarships were rejected after State Department staff reviewed the scholars' research. In addition, the department is reviewing 1,200 scholars from other countries, even though they have already been approved.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr chose eight people for an influential vaccine advisory panel. Picks include a well-known pediatric infectious disease expert and several anti-vax or vaccine-skeptical people. Earlier the Secretary fired all 17 members of the Advisory Committee in Immunization Practices. The committee requires eight to function. The first meeting of the RFK, Jr selected roster is June 25-27.

The National Weather Service said it would hire about 100 new employees to "fill positions at field offices where there is the greatest operational need." Earlier this year the NWS let go almost 600 employees during cuts ordered by the Trump administration.

President Trump is withdrawing the nomination of Jared Isaacman, a billionaire associate of DOGE leader Elon Musk, to head-up NASA. No reason for step was offered in the president's announcement, save for a cryptic comment about Isaacman's "prior associations."

This week the Office of Personnel Management released a memo describing its new "Merit-Based Hiring Plan," which instructs federal agencies in the administration's updated hiring processes. Key changes include ending DEI in the hiring process, easing academic degree requirements and replacing with "skills-based" assessments, re-focusing recruitment targets to include trade schools, affinity groups, homeschoolers and more, and requiring applicants for higher-level positions (GS-5 and above) to write essays demonstrating their commitment to carrying out executive orders and supporting presidential policy perspectives. Find more context on the evolution of the current merit-based federal hiring system, and the significance of the changes described in the memo in this analysis from Adam Bonica, Stanford University associate professor of political science.

President Trump nominated Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official, to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania). Previously Bove represented Trump as his private attorney in several cases during the Biden era.

In a court filing last week Department of Homeland Security officials revealed plans for sharp cuts to staffing at internal oversight offices. The new plan would see smaller staff levels at the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, and the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The CIS Ombudsman's office would shrink from 40 employees to 10; the ID ombudsman's office from 100 to 8; and the CRCL office from 140 to 22. Collectively these offices handle tens of thousands of complaint and investigatory case files at DHS.

A federal judge blocked the administration's efforts to take apart the Education Department. The judge ordered the administration to rehire the hundreds of department staff it had fired previously and blocked the administration plan to move the department's loan programs to the SBA. The judge ruled the administration does not have the authority to get rid of the department without Congress's approval.

The Supreme Court said President Trump likely has the authority to fire independent agency board members. The ruling stayed a lower court order that had reinstated a National Labor Relations Board member and one from the Merit Systems Protection Board. In its order, the Supreme Court carved out an exception for the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, saying the president did not have the authority to fire the head of that particular independent agency.

A federal judge ruled that two Democratic board members fired in January from their jobs with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board were removed illegally, and must be returned to their positions. The board is charged with protecting Americans' privacy and civil rights from government counter-terrorism efforts. It was formed based on the recommendation of the commission that investigated the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

This week the Trump administration fired hundreds of workers at broadcaster Voice of America. Contractors, mostly journalists, made up the bulk of the nearly 600 removals. The administration also put up for sale the building that houses the organization in Washington.