President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to "drain the swamp," i.e. rid Washington of the career politicians he perceives as corrupt. But many of the cabinet and cabinet-level appointments
he's already made since winning the election on November 8 are, to extend the metaphor, very swampy: a collection of veteran members of congress and people with close ties to the finance world, namely Goldman Sachs, the bank he often railed against during the campaign. The Chicago Tribune noted that the Trump administration might be the wealthiest in modern American history.
But it's not just millionaires and billionaires in his cabinet-Trump has, perhaps most notoriously, hired men with ties to the white supremacist "alt-right" movement to serve in positions that don't require confirmation from the Senate.
Trump's appointment process has also been infused with drama. Secretary of State, the marquee cabinet position that represents the United States around the world, is hotly contested, with multiple people vying for the spot: Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and David Patraeus among them. Trump has even encouraged his own staffers to weigh in publicly, with his campaign manager KellyAnne Conway savaging Romney on Twitter and TV even as her boss takes him out for frog legs at the high-priced Jean-Georges.
Here, updated in real time, are all of President-elect Trump's appointments so far, with handy breakdowns below:
Source: Yahoo
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