"Draining the Swamp" Into Washington D.C.

In his election victory speech, Donald Trump promised that "the forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer." Since then, he's assembled the wealthiest administration in US history, with key posts going to billionaires, millionaires, Wall Street insiders, and big donors who embody "the rigged, broken, corrupt system he vowed to fix." - Dave Gilson

$6.8 billion
Total net worth of Trump's Cabinet-level picks.
More than the GDP of 51 countries.

$2,8 billion
Total net worth of Barack Obama's final Cabinet. (90% for former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker).
Enough to expand Medicaid to 1 million Americans.

$250 million
Total net worth of George W. Bush's final Cabinet.

1% of Americans have a net worth above $18 million.

41% of Trump's Cabinet-level nominees do.

126 million Americans combined still have less wealth than Trump's Cabinet picks.

$65K
Median net worth of all American households.

$18.7M
Average net worth of Trump's Cabinet picks.

$357M
Average net worth of Trump's Cabinet picks.

Individual net worth of nine Cabinet members:
$2.9B - Wilbur Ross Jr. - secretary of commerce
$1.4B - Linda McMahon - small-business administrator
$1.5B - Betsy DeVos - secretary of education
$621M - Steven Mnuchin, secretary of the treasury
$385M - Rex Tillerson - secretary of state
$29M - Ben Carson - secretary of housing and urban development
$25.6M - Elaine Chao - secretary of transportation
$18.7M - Tom Price - secretary of health and human services

$110M - Andy Puzder - nominated for secretary of labor but withdrew his name. Puzder is an ardent foe of minimum-wage hikes; however, if the federal minimum wage had increased at the same rate as the incomes of the top 1 percent over the past four decades, it would now be $29 an hour.

During the campaign, Donald Trump railed against "Wall Street guys." His presidential advisers include Wall Street titan Carl Icahn, Blackstone Group exec Steve Schwarzman, and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. His nominee for secretary of the  Army is Vincent Viola, the chairman of Virtu Financial., who's worth $1.94 billion.

Since his election, Trump has recruited five ex-Goldman Sachs employees: treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, adviser Stephen Bannon, economic adviser Dina Powell, adviser Anthony Scaramucci, and National Economic Council head Gary Cohn, who got $285 million from Goldman upon leaving for Washington D.C.

Trump's picks are 86% white. 82% male, and 77% white men. It is the least diverse Cabinet since Ronald Reagan's. (Source for the above: Mother Jones, March/April 2017).