{"id":1050412,"date":"2024-12-12T20:20:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T01:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1050412"},"modified":"2024-12-12T20:20:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T01:20:04","slug":"by-the-numbers-trump-stacks-his-cabinet-with-billionaires-project-2025-authors-and-unqualified-minions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/by-the-numbers-trump-stacks-his-cabinet-with-billionaires-project-2025-authors-and-unqualified-minions\/","title":{"rendered":"BY THE NUMBERS: Trump Stacks His Cabinet with Billionaires, Project 2025 Authors, and Unqualified Minions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1038290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201c8 The number of picks who have ties to Project 2025 [\u2026] They include Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, who is Trump\u2019s selection to lead the Office of Management and Budget, and four others who are credited by name in Project 2025\u2019s plans. Other picks advised the project or played other roles. [&#8230;] Trump said [of Project 2025]: \u2018They have some things that are very conservative and very good.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/12\/12\/trump-cabinet-picks-fox-news-project-2025-women\/\"><strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/a><strong>: The striking trends of Trump\u2019s administration picks, by the numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Aaron Blake&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>13 The number of former Fox, Fox News and Fox Business hosts, contributors and employees<\/strong> that the famously TV-conscious Trump has selected.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>3 The number of family members <\/strong>and significant others that Trump has chosen.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He picked his son-in-law\u2019s father, Charles Kushner, as ambassador to France; his daughter\u2019s father-in-law, Massad Boulos, as a Middle East adviser; and his son\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, Kimberly Guilfoyle, to be ambassador to Greece.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>11 The number of billionaires Trump has picked <\/strong>for Cabinet and other roles, according to a compilation by Axios last week. It\u2019s a group led by the world\u2019s richest man, Elon Musk. Biden\u2019s entire Cabinet in 2021 was worth only about $118 million, according to a Forbes review. (These numbers are based on estimates of their net worths.)\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>15 The number of picks who have lost campaigns in recent years.<\/strong> Trump, despite his long-standing focus on winning, has selected a number of people who have performed poorly (relative to other Republicans) in recent elections.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All told, <strong>10 of Trump\u2019s picks have run failed Senate campaigns \u2014 most of them in winnable races.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>8 The number of picks who have ties to Project 2025<\/strong> [\u2026] They <strong>include Project 2025 architect Russell Vought<\/strong>, who is Trump\u2019s selection to lead the Office of Management and Budget, and <strong>four others who are credited by name in Project 2025\u2019s plans<\/strong>. Other picks advised the project or played other roles. [&#8230;] Trump said, adding: \u201c<strong>[Project 2025] have some things that are very conservative and very good.<\/strong>\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Trump downplayed his ability to lower grocery prices<\/strong>, saying: \u201cI\u2019d like to bring them down. It\u2019s hard to bring things down once they\u2019re up. You know, it\u2019s very hard. But I think that they will.\u201d This is a contrast to what Trump said on the campaign trail, when he promised that people\u2019s \u201cenergy costs and grocery prices will come tumbling down.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>[Trump] indicated that his administration could get rid of some vaccines<\/strong>, again <strong>suggesting a baseless link between them and autism<\/strong>: \u201cIt could if I think it\u2019s dangerous, if I think they are not beneficial, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be very controversial in the end.\u201d (<strong>Kennedy is a prominent vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist whose views on the subject could be a problem even with some GOP senators.<\/strong>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>36-17 That\u2019s the margin by which Americans disapprove of Hegseth\u2019s nomination<\/strong>, according to a new AP-NORC poll. Hegseth\u2019s selection has run into problems due to his repeated marital infidelity and allegations of sexual assault, financial mismanagement and alcohol abuse. [&#8230;] The <strong>same poll also found Gabbard\u2019s and Kennedy\u2019s nominations to be unpopular<\/strong>, on net.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201c8 The number of picks who have ties to Project 2025 [\u2026] They include Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, who is Trump\u2019s selection to lead the Office of Management and Budget, and four others who are credited by name in Project 2025\u2019s plans. Other picks advised the project or played other roles. 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