A campaign spokesman said Donald Trump and Mike Pence will discuss "a number of names" at Trump Tower Tuesday. | Getty Trump, Pence to discuss cabinet picks Tuesday

President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence will meet Tuesday at Trump Tower to review candidates for federal appointments, according to a campaign spokesman.

Transition communications adviser Jason Miller announced Monday night that the pair will be reviewing "a number of names" for cabinet and senior White House positions in the Trump-Pence administration Tuesday.


"There has been a lot of work put in by both the Vice President-elect and a number of members of the transition team," he said, according to a pool report.

"I don’t want to put a finite time able. Obviously, inauguration day is not getting further away. And people need to get going. This is an absolute top priority understood by the President-elect and the Vice President-elect.”

Though Miller would not say whether any decisions were forthcoming in light of the meeting, he stressed that any gathering between Trump and Pence signified strong deliberations, adding: “If the Vice President-elect is getting together with the President-elect to discuss names, then I would say that it’s serious, obviously.”

Asked about reports that Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is the leading candidate to become Trump's secretary of defense, Miller lavished the senator with praise.

“I’m a huge fan of Sen. Sessions and the President-elect will be lucky to have him in any capacity," he said.

On Sunday, Trump announced he had selected Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus as his chief of staff and Steve Bannon as chief strategist and senior counselor.

"Steve and Reince are highly qualified leaders who worked well together on our campaign and led us to a historic victory. Now I will have them both with me in the White House as we work to make America great again," Trump said in a statement.

While the selection of Priebus received praise from conservatives, Bannon's inclusion received widespread condemnation, from minority groups to conservative operatives who who fear he will bring extremist "alt-right" ideology into the White House.