“While these cabinet officials will attend meetings and nod their heads at whatever Trump says, the early indications strongly suggest they won’t be setting policy. That will be reserved for the czars, the internal White House appointees that Trump has made in parallel, and who are key to the emerging vision of centralizing power under the president-elect’s thumb.”

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https://prospect.org/politics/2024-11-14-trump-cabinet-doesnt-matter/

The Cabinet Doesn’t Matter

The second Trump administration will have a Potemkin cabinet and centralized power among the czars in the White House.

The American Prospect