By james art 
ATLANTA (AP)-President Donald Trump’s brittle populism has always been involved in a mismatch: a billionaire businessman who moves the passions of millions who, regardless of the trajectory of the American economy, could never afford to live in their Manhattan skyscraper or to visit your club in South Florida.
His second White House looks a lot like the interior of Mar-A-Lago, with extremely wealthy Americans taking key roles in his administration.
The most rich man in the world, Elon Musk, is watching a new Ministry of Government effectiveness. Billionaires or mega-millionaires are lined to manage the cashier, trade, interior and educational departments, NASA and the administration of small business and fill key foreign posts.
“He attracts people who have had great success in the private sector,” says Debbie Dulie, a Trump supporter in early 2015, and a national organizer of a national one at one time in the movement to combat the establishment of the Tea Party. “If you have to have brain surgery, you want proven brain surgeons.”
Others raise concerns about the conflict of interest that contradict Trump’s promise to fight for “forgotten men and women” in a country where the average household is about $ 193,000 and the average annual home income is about $ 81,000.
“It is difficult to think about how the largest set of cabinet nominees and White House appointments in history will understand what average working people are going through,” said former Labor Minister Robert Reich, who has served with President Bill Clinton and has warned for decades for decades For the nation, expanding the rich and wage gaps.
DOOLEY CONTRATED: “Trump defines the agenda. If they will not introduce his policies, then they will hear him say what we hear about the “apprentice” all the time: “You are fired!”
Here is more of the Trump election, their net value according to Forbes and what the choice may mean:
Elon Musk
Musk (net value calculated over $ 400 billion) chaired the new Ministry of Government Efficiency, which is a special committee charged with reducing federal costs. The vast relationships that his business has with the government has raised questions about Musk’s potential conflicts in the role.
Linda McMahon
McMahon was chosen to be a secretary of Trump’s education. She is the wife of Vince McMahon, who costs at least $ 3 billion.
Former WWE Wrestling CEO will lead an agency that many conservatives have called for to completely remove. Although this is a heavy raising political, McMahon and Trump have approved the expansion of the School Choice programs that direct taxpayers’ money to private school training. It may also be responsible for the implementation of Trump’s proposals to retain federal money from public schools-K-12 and higher education that do not meet the demands of the White House for change or elimination of diversity programs.
Doug Burgum
North Dakota governor (a $ 1.1 billion estimated) made his money as a software entrepreneur. Burgum impressed Trump during his own unsuccessful offer for the GOP 2024 presidential nomination. As the Interior Secretary, Burgum will be charged with fulfilling the promise of “Drilling, Baby, Training” by Trump – which makes it even easier to use energy companies to use Fossil fuel resources, including public lands.
Scott Essent
Forbes has not yet identified furious as a billionaire, but the manager of the veteran hedge fund has confirmed Monday, as the Minister of Finance certainly costs a lot of millions. At the Ministry of Finance, he will play key roles in the sale and implementation of a number of Trump signing policies: Restoration of tax cuts for 2017, inclined to corporations and wealthy persons, imposing tariffs for many imports and reduction of wage taxes for wages Overtime, social security benefits and council income.
Reich, the former Minister of Labor, noted that Essent and his colleagues wealthy cabinet designers benefit from Trump’s tax ideas personally. Trump’s tax policies, which helped to expand Trump’s first term, are combined with Bechent’s warnings about the dangers of increasing US debt and the cost of annual interest payments to government government owners.
Howard Luni
The apparent runner -up of the head of the treasury, Lutnik (an estimated net value worth $ 1.5 billion) has been nominated as a merchant secretary. A chutney, who made his wealth as CEO of financial services, is still planned for a post-profile post, which will put him at the center of Trump’s promised commercial wars with China and other countries, including Mexico and Canada. Trade also runs several agencies, including the Census Bureau, whose calculations are crucial for determining the distribution of financing programs in the federal government.
Kelly Loffler
The Georgia businesswoman, appointed to run the small business administration, was the most rich member of the Senate during her short stay on the Capitol hill. Loeffler is married to Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, the publicly traded company that owns the New York Stock Exchange. This is not the center of trade for the usual clientele of SBA. The agency was founded in 1953 and is described as “the only federal agency at a cabinet level fully dedicated to small business”, providing “consultation, capital and negotiation of expertise as the sole resource and voice in the nation for small business.”
As Senator, Loeffler faced complaints about ethics because of the alleged domestic trade involved in stock transactions, she and her husband made her congress members for the first time receiving briefings related to the coronavirus pandemic. Trade happened weeks before the pandemic leads to the fall of the markets. Later, investigations from the Ministry of Justice and the Senate did not find misconduct by Loeffler.
Jared Isaacman
Isaacman, another billionaire for financial services, was the first rich man to make a space walk through Musk’s company, SpaceX. This choice, however, illustrates Trump’s backrest to the rich private sector, given that billionaires like Musk and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos are now competing in the space sector that was once a province of the Federal Government and the Agency, which Isaacman would lead as an administrator of NASA.
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