Forget “draining the swamp,” President-elect Donald Trump is building a cabinet full of “more swamp creatures than ever before,” Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) told CBS‘s “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
Appearing on the morning show, the progressive lawmaker, who is running to chair the Democratic National Committee (DNC), said, “Donald Trump has already proven where he’s going with this thing,” based on the nominees thus far.
“He has lobbyists and big-time investment bankers,” Ellison continued, pointing to the recent Politico article, “Why Wall Street is Suddenly in Love with Trump.”
“He’s not doing what he’s said he’s gonna do for average working Americans,” he added.
Trump has already appointed Republican insiders Rep. Mike Pompeo and party chair Reince Priebus, while he is considering Goldman Sachs alum Steve Mnuchin for the position of Treasury secretary. On Saturday, the president-elect met with former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who is reportedly in the running for Secretary of State.
But even Trump’s so-called “outsider” picks—like the alt-right figurehead and newly-appointed chief strategist Steve Bannon and national security advisor Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, a known Islamophobe—are highly controversial and, advocates say, do not represent the interests of American citizens.
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