Fox News Prepares to Cover a Government Filled With Fox News Alumni

Mr. Hegseth is poised to move from “Fox & Friends Weekend” to overseeing the Pentagon. Sean Duffy, a Fox Business host, is Mr. Trump’s pick for transportation secretary. Tom Homan, a Fox contributor, has been tapped to be his border czar. Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, who explained the Covid pandemic to Fox viewers, is nominated for surgeon general. (None are still on the Fox payroll; the network terminated its contracts with anyone who was tapped by Mr. Trump.)

There’s Mike Huckabee, who hosted a Fox News show for seven years, as ambassador to Israel. Tulsi Gabbard, who left a Fox gig in August, is up for national intelligence director. Two longtime Fox commentators, Tammy Bruce and Monica Crowley, are headed to the State Department. At least 11 other people with connections to Fox — including Sebastian Gorka, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Keith Kellogg — are headed to administration jobs, too.

Some of the Fox alumni headed to the administration are more connected to Fox than others.

Sergio Gor, who will lead the White House Presidential Personnel Office, has not worked for Fox since 2012, when he was a booker for Neil Cavuto. Morgan Ortagus, nominated by Mr. Trump as a deputy special presidential envoy to the Middle East, worked as a network contributor for only two months in early 2019.

Ms. Ortagus was a State Department spokeswoman in Mr. Trump’s first term, and the president-elect has expressed some skepticism about her. “Early on Morgan fought me for three years, but hopefully has learned her lesson,” he wrote in announcing her new role. “These things usually don’t work out, but she has strong Republican support, and I’m not doing this for me, I’m doing it for them. Let’s see what happens.”

Mr. Wallace said that he believed the preponderance of Fox alumni in the upcoming administration reflected well on his network. “It’s a testament,” he said, “to the types of people we’ve picked in the past.”