All selections for the new administration need our prayers. Prayers at this time are especially needed for the team of director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth. They are going to be under constant attack from the left to be removed. But according to former speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich, this country really needs them.

“I’m watching President Trump create the most reform-oriented Cabinet in my lifetime,” Gingrich told “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 77 FM-N.Y. on Sunday morning.

The disruptor nominees are long needed to conduct “a complete overhaul” at the Pentagon, Gingrich told host John Catsimatidis, adding that the choices for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and Hegseth would make an “amazing team.”

But Trump’s Cabinet picks are going to face potentially historic obstruction, particularly in Hegseth, according to Gingrich.

“It’s going to take enormous courage and resilience on the part of Pete Hegseth to survive over there because the whole old order is going to try to destroy him,” Gingrich warned. “I’ve been actively involved in thinking about and working on defense for an extraordinarily long time: And I can tell you, the building needs a very complete overhaul.”

All of the three- and four-star generals should be sent out and given retirement papers, a source told Gingrich.

“I had one senior person in the military who retired, who was working with Trump, who said he would recommend the president have every three and four star general retire — and then go down to two stars to pick a whole new generation of leaders,” Gingrich said.

“He thinks between Obama and Biden, the whole system has just been undermined and corrupted.”

Trump is reportedly weighing an executive order to conduct external reviews of U.S. military generals — potentially having them interview to keep their jobs in the Pentagon that might lead to their dismissals after the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal and wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East.

Gingrich also spoke about the overhaul of Congress, including new Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.

Gingrich said Thune is a “good guy” who “bridges everybody” and Johnson has the “hardest job in Washington today” with the slimmest of margins with a presumptive 220-213 majority with two races left to call.

“I think one of Trump’s commitments ought to be to try to turn the cities red so that they actually have jobs, have safety and have decent, honest government,” Gingrich concluded. “Now, that’s a pretty good project.”

Donald Trump’s New Administration

As President-elect Donald Trump nears inauguration for his second administration, he has announced several individuals for key positions. Among them are:

Chief of Staff: Susie Wiles

Deputy Chief of Staff: Dan Scavino

Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy: Stephen Miller

Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political and Public Affairs: James Blair

Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Personnel: Taylor Budowich

Assistant to the President/Director of Communications: Steve Cheung

Assistant to the President/Director of the Presidential Personnel Office: Sergio Gor

Assistant to the President/Staff Secretary: William Owen Scharff

National Security Adviser: Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla.

White House Counsel: William Joseph McGinley

White House Press Secretary: Karoline Leavitt

Attorney General: Matt Gaetz

Secretary of State: Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

Secretary of the Department of Defense: Pete Hegseth

Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security: Kristi Noem

Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services: Robert. F. Kennedy Jr.

Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs: Doug Collins

Secretary of the Department of the Interior/Chairman WH Council of National Energy: Doug Burgum

Secretary of the Department of Energy/Member WH Council of National Energy: Chris Wright

Secretary of the Department of Transportation: Sean Duffy

Immigration/Border Protection: Tom Homan

Director of National Intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency: John Ratcliffe

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: Lee Zeldin

Ambassador to the United Nations: Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.

Ambassador to Israel: Mike Huckabee

Special Envoy to the Middle East: Steven C. Witkoff

Department of Government Efficiency: Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy

Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission: Brendan Carr

U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York: Jay Clayton

Deputy Attorney General: Todd Blanche

Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General: Emil Bove

Solicitor General: Dean John Sauer

Commerce Secretary: Howard Lutnick

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator: Dr. Mehmet Oz