President-elect Donald Trump has almost completed his “Day One” team of cabinet officials. This morning, just hours before the inauguration, Vice President-elect Mike Pence announced that former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue has been named as Trump’s choice for secretary of agriculture.
With that, the entire cabinet is complete, and the transition team’s duties will now be transferred to the White House personnel department. Pence said they’ve received more than 80,000 resumes for the 4,000 positions that need to be filled.
Pence thanked the transition team for its efforts and said “one thing you know when you see a box turtle on a fence post is he had help getting there.”