The Senate will hold confirmation hearings for more than a dozen of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks this week, including for Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem.

President-elect Trump’s Inauguration Day is less than a week away and he’s begun to plan who will attend various events in Washington to mark his return to the White House. Trump has invited many other people,

Trump’s selections for cabinet positions are set to begin confirmation hearings this week, paving the way for them to serve in their roles around the start of his administration. But the hearings — the most public part of the confirmation process — are just one feature of a complicated vetting of those hoping to run federal agencies.

With one week until Inauguration Day, committees in the Republican-led Senate are scheduled to hold confirmation hearings on 13 of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees during