Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe was one of the least-qualified appointees in the first Trump regime; he might be one of the more experienced this time around, though Trump’s statement putting him forward for CIA director, which cited not his résumé but his sycophancy, was not reassuring. For the Department of Homeland Security, one of the largest and most complicated parts of the federal government, Trump selected Kristi Noem, a small-business woman and governor of a lightly populated state—but a die-hard MAGA loyalist. Trump has not provided a great deal of detail about how DOGE would work, though Musk has, naturally, already produced a dank meme.