WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators returned to the Capitol Monday for a late-evening session pushing ahead on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, with voting possible to confirm Sen. Marco Rubio as the nation’s secretary of state on Inauguration Day.

The Senate voted on Monday to confirm Marco Rubio as President Donald Trump’s secretary of state, the first high-level Cabinet official for the new administration to be approved by the chamber.

The Senate voted unanimously to confirm Sen. Marco Rubio's as secretary of state on Monday, making him the first member of President Donald Trump's second Cabinet.

President Donald Trump welcomed a mix of traditional, unprecedented and unorthodox guests at his inauguration ceremony

Thursday’s trio of confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees put the focus squarely on Trump’s domestic and economic agenda that will dominate the debates on Capitol Hill this year.

Cabinet members, governors, and long-serving public servants are positioned in rows behind the tech billionaires, with only family seated ahead of them.

A longtime FBI deputy director who had been expected to replace Director Christopher Wray on an acting basis is retiring from the bureau.

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance both used Bibles with sentimental value to take the oath of office.

Some of Donald Trump's picks for his cabinet are expected to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate this week after the chamber held more than a dozen confirmation hearings last week. More hearings for other nominees are scheduled for this week.

President Donald Trump released the full list of his cabinet nominees Monday. Some of the nominees are already in the process of being confirmed by the Senate, while others have hearings scheduled for later this week.

Wealthy hedge fund executive Scott Bessent – whose confirmation hearing for treasury secretary is slated for Thursday – has hundreds of millions of dollars in assets and owns property from North Dakota to the Bahamas.