President-elect Donald TrumpDonald Trump Jr.’s son indicated Sunday that his father’s transition team is prepared to pursue other Cabinet nominees if their top picks don’t come through the United States. Senate confirmation process, although he remains confident that they will succeed.

The past week has proven difficult for the president-elect, as he released a series of Cabinet appointment announcements, some of which were met with immediate backlash and controversyas his pick for U.S. attorney general, former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetzand his choice for secretary of defense, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth.

During his appearance on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Trump Jr. said Trump’s transition team had backup plans in case those nominees failed, pointing out that the team had “lists of 10 or 12 people for every position” without providing names.

“Look, there are always ideas, we have lists of people, we don’t choose a name at random, we show him lists of 10 or 12 people for each position, so we have backup plans, but I think we obviously go with the strongest candidates first,” he said.

Trump Jr. added: “Some of them are going to be controversial, they’re controversial because they’ll actually move things forward. The Swamp doesn’t want that, so we’re going to go all out and make sure that these “People have the best chance of being confirmed, because they’re the ones who are the most effective.”

The president-elect’s eldest son said that when people “see this kind of reaction, usually, it’s because it’s a threat to the one-party system in Washington, D.C..”

He added: “They don’t want to see any change. They want things to be business as usual. They don’t want to be disrupted; that’s their meal plan. That’s their ticket.”

News week contacted the Trump transition team by email Sunday morning for comment.

Much of the backlash has focused on Hegseth and Gaetz, due to sexual assault allegations against Hegseth and the House Ethics Committee report against Gaetz who was investigating allegations of drug use and sexual misconduct, including having sex with an underage girl.

Hegseth and Gaetz have vigorously denied any wrongdoing, but their appointments have already caused a stir due to a perceived lack of experience in the field they are about to take over or in leadership roles of a comparable nature to those they would assume as leaders. Secretary of Defense or Attorney General respectively.

However, other Trump nominees have also faced considerable backlash for similar reasons, such as Trump’s choice for director of national intelligence, a former Democratic representative from Hawaii. Tulsi Gabbardthat some have accused of being a “Russian agent” and a potential threat to national security due to his sympathetic views toward Russia in its ongoing war with Ukraine and his previous secret meetings with the Syrian president. Bashar al-Assada Russian ally.

Trump’s choice for health and human services chief, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.also caused a sensation because of its previous comments supporting vaccine skepticism and other health care conspiracies. Others, like Dr. Mehmet Oz, hailed the appointment as a change of pace in addressing health care workers’ issues of stress and work overload.

Trump Jr. stressed Sunday that his father’s transition team saw this as “an incredible opportunity – maybe a once-in-a-generation opportunity – to really make a difference, in people, in minds, whether we wouldn’t find any other way in government, frankly.”

He added: “It really is something epic, I can’t wait to see it, and I just want to make sure that the rest of the cabinet around my father is able and willing to deliver that message and that promise to Americans.

The Senate is responsible for confirming nominations by majority vote. However, playtime meetingwhich take place when the Senate is out of session, allowing appointees to bypass Senate confirmation hearings, temporarily putting them in their positions.

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota suggested that recess appointments could be a potential strategy to pass Trump’s Cabinet nominations.

“I think all options are on the table, including holiday appointments. Hopefully we won’t get to that point, but we’ll know pretty quickly if the Democrats you want to play ball or not,” he said Thursday in an interview with Fox News.

The Associated Press, citing the Congressional Research Service, reported that the former president Barack Obama made 32 appointments for vacancies, ex-president George W. Bush made 171 and former president Bill Clinton made 139 while the Senate was in recess.