Key Point: “8 The number of picks who have ties to Project 2025 […] They include Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, who is Trump’s selection to lead the Office of Management and Budget, and four others who are credited by name in Project 2025’s plans. Other picks advised the project or played other roles. […] Trump said [of Project 2025]: ‘They have some things that are very conservative and very good.’”

Washington Post: The striking trends of Trump’s administration picks, by the numbers

By Aaron Blake 

• 13 The number of former Fox, Fox News and Fox Business hosts, contributors and employees that the famously TV-conscious Trump has selected.
• 3 The number of family members and significant others that Trump has chosen.
• He picked his son-in-law’s father, Charles Kushner, as ambassador to France; his daughter’s father-in-law, Massad Boulos, as a Middle East adviser; and his son’s fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, to be ambassador to Greece.
• 11 The number of billionaires Trump has picked for Cabinet and other roles, according to a compilation by Axios last week. It’s a group led by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. Biden’s entire Cabinet in 2021 was worth only about $118 million, according to a Forbes review. (These numbers are based on estimates of their net worths.) 
• 15 The number of picks who have lost campaigns in recent years. Trump, despite his long-standing focus on winning, has selected a number of people who have performed poorly (relative to other Republicans) in recent elections. 
• All told, 10 of Trump’s picks have run failed Senate campaigns — most of them in winnable races.
• 8 The number of picks who have ties to Project 2025 […] They include Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, who is Trump’s selection to lead the Office of Management and Budget, and four others who are credited by name in Project 2025’s plans. Other picks advised the project or played other roles. […] Trump said, adding: “[Project 2025] have some things that are very conservative and very good.”
• Trump downplayed his ability to lower grocery prices, saying: “I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will.” This is a contrast to what Trump said on the campaign trail, when he promised that people’s “energy costs and grocery prices will come tumbling down.”
• [Trump] indicated that his administration could get rid of some vaccines, again suggesting a baseless link between them and autism: “It could if I think it’s dangerous, if I think they are not beneficial, but I don’t think it’s going to be very controversial in the end.” (Kennedy is a prominent vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist whose views on the subject could be a problem even with some GOP senators.)
• 36-17 That’s the margin by which Americans disapprove of Hegseth’s nomination, according to a new AP-NORC poll. Hegseth’s selection has run into problems due to his repeated marital infidelity and allegations of sexual assault, financial mismanagement and alcohol abuse. […] The same poll also found Gabbard’s and Kennedy’s nominations to be unpopular, on net.