Who will have an official position in the new Trump administration? (Add Answers)
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99%
Elise Stefanik
99%
Tom Homan
99%
Linda McMahon
99%
Howard Lutnick
84%
Kari Lake
69%
Kevin Warsh
65%
Jim O’Neill
55%
kimberly guilfoyle
44%
Larry Kudlow
38%
Elon Musk
38%
Ben Carson
35%
Chris Rufo
28%
Aileen Cannon
20%
Mike Lee
17%
Ron Desantis
14%
Bobby Jindal
14%
George P. Bush
12%
Thomas Massie
9%
Glenn Youngkin
7%
Peter Thiel

Answers resolve yes when the individual in question takes on an official role in the new Trump administration before the end of his first hundred days. Roles do not need to be Senate-confirmed (Chief of Staff or Press Secretary counts), but roles that require Senate confirmation must actually be confirmed before they resolve.

NOTE, 11/7 9:44am: An "official role" must include being a formal employee of the United States government. "X is going to be my advisor on confronting the rhinoceros threat" does not count. "X is going to be Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Agriculture but I am directing everyone in the Executive Branch to obey his instructions on all topics relating to rhinoceroses" does count.

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filled a Ṁ49 YES at 89% order

Some of these can resolve!

Hegseth, Burgum, Bessent, Noem, and Rubio all resolve YES - they've been confirmed by the senate.

Miller has been picked as Dep. Chief of Staff. Homan has been picked as Border Czar. Leavitt is his press secretary. Brendan Carr is listed as his head of the FCC. David Sacks is currently his AI and Crypto czar. Kari Lake is currently the director of Voice of America. All of these are official positions, and should also resolve YES.

Elon Musk's actual status as a government employee isn't entirely clear.

@Marnix thank you for reminding me!

@Marnix Resolved those who have been confirmed by the Senate or officially taken positions that do not require confirmation. Sacks resolves YES in his role as Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. As far as I can tell, Homan does not have an official position yet and Kari Lake needs to be approved by the International Broadcasting Advisory Board.

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Elon's a busy man

@traders Please note clarification in the description. Happy to answer any edge cases.

Do ‘czars’ count?

@JeffBerman Czar is typically the nickname for someone who has an official post, so in that case yes. (for instance, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy is often called the Drug Czar)

@JeffBerman Follow up: a friend who knows more about the actual functioning, the federal government than I do informs me that occasionally a czar actually has no official position, but by appointing them the president essentially tells everyone in the executive branch that they have to listen to this person on that topic. I would NOT consider that a “yes” — in order to qualify for this market, the individual in question must have a specific official role within the US government.

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