Draining What Swamp? Trump Picks Goldman Sachs President For Top Economic Cabinet Job

Trump Picks Goldman Sachs President For Top Economic Job

Donald Trump is doing the opposite of what he promised during the campaign and fishing in the swamp by hiring the political elite for his top cabinet positions. Trump has tapped Goldman Sachs president and chief operating officer Gary Cohn for the National Economic Council reports CBS News:

If he accepts, Cohn will be responsible for advising the president on domestic and international economic policy issues and monitoring the implementation of the White House’s economic policy agenda. The NEC director is one of the three main economic advisers to the president. The others are chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) and the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The CEA chair is almost always an academic, whose job it is to provide economic analysis. The OMB director is charged with developing the president’s budget.

Cohn is a registered Democrat and has in the past donated to both Republicans and Democrats — including Hillary Clinton when she was running for the Senate. However, in the 2016 election cycle, he only gave to Republicans, according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Draining what swamp?

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