1/14/25

The Wealthiest Cabinet in History

Trump’s creating a government of billionaires, by billionaires, and for billionaires. 

So far, he’s picked 13 billionaires to serve in his administration — surpassing his FIRST administration as the wealthiest ever.

Heading the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” is the biggest billionaire of them all, Elon Musk, alongside pharma billionaire Vi-VAKE Rama-swamy.

For the Department of Education, he’s picked WWE executive Linda McMahon.

Trump also tapped Howard Lutnick, a Wall Street mogul worth at least $2 billion dollars to be commerce secretary…

Hedge fund billionaire Scott BESS-ent for treasury secretary and Stephen Fine-berg, a private equity CEO, for deputy defense secretary.

Trump’s cabinet nominees alone are worth at least $11 billion dollars. And that number doesn’t even include the hundreds of billions from his non-official advisors like Musk. 

And I haven’t even mentioned his admin picks who are worth just hundreds of millions of dollars…

Their wealth is staggering, but the real problem is potential conflicts of interest. Trump’s picks have huge sums of money tangled up in the industries they’re tasked with overseeing. 

Can we really trust that they will act in the public interest rather than in the interests of their portfolios? 

Many Americans turned to Trump because they believed he would unrig the system. But he’s filling the White House with the people who benefit most by keeping it rigged.

Beware. 

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