Trump cabinet confirmation hearings live updates: Pam Bondi and Marco Rubio lead picks in Senate firing line

9:30 am: Trump attorney general nominee Pam Bondi on the Senate Judiciary Committee

10:00 am: Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, Senator Marco Rubio, at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Trump CIA director nominee John Ratcliffe to the Senate Intelligence Committee

Chris Wright, Trump’s nominee for energy secretary, of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

Sean Duffy, Trump’s nominee for transportation secretary, at the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee

1:00 PM: White House budget nominee Russell Vought on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

This week’s Senate confirmation hearings will put Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees front and center as lawmakers question them about their controversial history and ties to the incoming president.

These hearings, which will determine whether the new president’s hand-picked top staff can run his administration, started Tuesday with Pete Hegseth and will last all week.

Any Trump picks will effectively be tried before senators on the committees that oversee federal agencies.

A lecture by the highest transgender officer in the armed forces; a celebration of Loving Day and sessions on equity assurance training.

A large number of flyers obtained by DailyMail.com from CIA officers expose the extent of the agency’s work on ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’, prompting new accusations that it is being distracted from its core mission : protecting Americans from foreign threats.

But Trump transition insiders say those concerns will be directly addressed by John Ratcliffe, who was picked by the president-elect to lead the agency and will be questioned by senators on Wednesday about his plans.

By Katelyn Caralle, senior US political reporter

The hearing on President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security has been postponed.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was scheduled to hold her confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

At the same time it was moved to Friday.

The change in schedule, according to reports, is “due to a delay in the FBI background check for Governor Noem.”

Trump’s nominee to lead the Interior Department, former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, is also facing a two-day delay to his confirmation hearing due to delayed paperwork.