GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Fourth District Congressman Bill Huizenga says the process for filling President Donald Trump's cabinet is going well.
The Republican U.S. Representative was a guest Tuesday on West Michigan's Morning News.
Huizenga told WOOD Radio that Trump wasted no time getting to work after being sworn in Monday as the 47th president of the United States.
"He set aside a lot of the pomp and circumstance so that he could go be with 20,000 people to execute what he said he was going to do in the campaign, and start signing all these executive orders. And trying to really fulfill his campaign promises," Huizenga said.
Besides signing dozes of executive orders, Trump issues nearly 1,500 pardons and commuted the sentenced of more than a dozen supporters connected the Jan. 6, 2021, uprising at the U.S. Capitol.
Huizenga got a kick out of Trump tossing pens into the crowd.
"Pretty historic. I've never seen a president sign executive orders and then throw the pens into the crowd. So, it was something else," he said with a chuck.
WMMN host Steve Kelly replied, "I haven't seen that part of the video yet. Like a T-shirt toss at the Griffins' game?"
"It kind of was," Huizenga said. "At Capitol One Center."
Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio became the first member of Trump's Cabinet when he was approved yesterday by the Senate. He was sworn in as Secretary of State on Tuesday morning by Vice President JD Vance.
"There's something called a Landing Team," Huizenga said of the process to approve the new Cabinet members.
He said the Landing Team is a group of people who come in and process the paperwork and computer work that translates into the Cabinet positions becoming ready to be confirmed.
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