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This is CNBC’s live coverage of Senate confirmation hearings for six of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees on Jan. 15, 2025.

Six of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees to top positions in his administration face their first Senate confirmation hearings today.

The nominees for attorney general, director of Central Intelligence and the White House Office of Management and Budget will all testify before their committees of jurisdiction, as well as Trump’s picks for secretaries of state, energy and transportation.

The six nominees — Pam Bondi, John Ratcliffe, Russell Vought, Sen. Marco Rubio, Chris Wright and Sean Duffy — are not among Trump’s most controversial picks. Barring any serious, unforeseen issues they are widely expected to be confirmed shortly after Trump is sworn into office on Monday.

Bondi is the nominee for attorney general; Rubio for secretary of State; Ratcliff for DCI, Wright for Energy secretary, Duffy for Transportation secretary; and Vought for director of OMB.

Each …