Everything you need to know about Donald Trump's cabinet, in 5 charts
There are more billionaires than black people in Trump’s new cabinet
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I will Make Our Government Honest Again -- believe me. But first, I'm going to have to #DrainTheSwamp in DC. https://t.co/m1lMAQPnIb
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2016
Here’s how the cabinet stacks up, in numbers, so far.
(In the interests of making a direct comparison as possible, we compared only the 20 cabinet-level positions Trump has named so far, and only compared the first set of appointments that each president made in office.)
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