U.S. Air Force: The president-elect said Thursday he will nominate Troy Meink, a top spy chief who has previously served as a missile engineer, to be secretary of the Air Force. Meink is the principal deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office, an intelligence agency in charge of building and maintaining U.S. spy satellites.
U.S. Secret Service: The president-elect tapped Sean Curran, leader of the detail protecting him since he left office in 2021, to direct the Secret Service, a part of the Department of Homeland Security, CNN reported. Curran, if confirmed, would be new to managing the agency’s $3 billion budget and supervising its more than 8,000 employees. Ronald Rowe has been acting Secret Service director since July, succeeding director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned following an assassination attempt aimed at Trump in Butler, Pa. She told Congress the shooting that injured then-candidate Trump’s ear and killed a bystander was the “most significant operational failure of the Secret Service in decades.”
U.S. Department of Agriculture: Trump on Thursday announced his intention to nominate farmer Richard Fordyce, a former administrator of the federal Farm Service Agency, to be the next under secretary for farm production and conservation at USDA. The president-elect tapped Idaho businessman Michael Boren to be under secretary for natural resources and environment at the Agriculture Department. Trump named Dudley Hoskins, counsel on the Senate Agriculture Committee, to be the department’s under secretary for marketing and regulator programs.
