Trump adds cabinet members from LI, nominees advance

A half dozen people with Long Island ties are among the cabinet members that President Donald Trump has nominated — some of whom have been swiftly approved by the U.S. Senate.

The Senate confirmed ex-U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley), the former congressman for the East End, to serve as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as billionaire financier and former Hamptons homeowner Scott Bessent to serve as the next secretary of treasury. Pending confirmation votes as of press time were Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, a Jericho native who owns a home in Bridgehampton, to be the next U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Dr. Dave Weldon to oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Garden City native Kash Patel to be FBI director and Bill White, of Point Lookout, to be ambassador to Belgium.