Yesterday, President-elect Donald Trump took the first step to putting together his new administration.

Trump announcing tonight that his White House chief of staff will be Susie Wiles.

She becomes the first female chief of staff in U.S. history. The White House

Chief of Staff is often the first position a new president will fill. And there will be many more

before inauguration day. What does this task of appointing a whole new administration look like?

What does it entail?

It is a just gargantuan feat.

You have the entirety of our government nearly changing over.

There's 4,000 political appointee positions.

More than 1,000 of those need to be confirmed by the Senate.

That's our colleague, Andrew Rastusha.

On top of that, you have every government agency's leadership is going to change over in, you know, over a 24-hour period.

How has Trump talked about forming a new administration?

So he has said that there are things that he wants to do differently.

The main thing comes down to hiring,

and he's more convinced than ever now,

now that he's won the second term,

that his worldview is the right one.

And so they want to avoid hiring people that come from a different worldview.

Loyalty will be sort of the core thing that they're looking for in all staff across from

low-level people to the highest levels of government.

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