What is the net worth of Trump's administration picks?

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(NewsNation) — Donald Trump’s projected advisers for his 2nd statesmanlike medication comprises politicians, a TV quality host, tech entrepreneurs – and billionaires.

A billionaire himself, Trump is the richest American president successful history, accounting for inflation, with a $5.2 cardinal estimated nett worth arsenic of Nov. 15, which is down from $6.7 cardinal connected Oct. 31.

His projected Department of Government Efficiency would beryllium led by billionaire person Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.

Trump's Cabinet during his archetypal word was considered to beryllium the wealthiest Cabinet successful erstwhile administrations. While the DOGE presumption is not technically a Cabinet post, Trump's picks truthful acold see plentifulness of affluent individuals.

But first, the president-elect needs the Senate to corroborate his appointments, oregon helium needs to put to instal them via a impermanent process known arsenic recess appointments.

Here is the nett worthy of the wealthiest members of Trump's projected second-term administration.

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The Billionaires

Elon Musk's nett worth

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk listens arsenic  Republican statesmanlike  nominee erstwhile  President Donald Trump speaks astatine  a run  lawsuit   astatine  the Butler Farm Show, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, successful  Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk listens arsenic Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump speaks astatine a run lawsuit astatine the Butler Farm Show, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, successful Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Elon Musk, proprietor of SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter) and Tesla, is the world's richest man, acold surpassing his caller brag successful idiosyncratic wealth.

According to Forbes’ real-time billionaires list, arsenic of Nov. 15, Musk has a nett worthy of $298.4 billion, owing to his tech companies.

The X proprietor archetypal appeared connected Forbes’ billionaire database successful 2012 with a nett worthy of $2 billion.

Forbes reported that his nett worthy successful October 2011 was $680 million.

Vivek Ramaswamy's nett worth

Vivek Ramaswamy greets supporters astatine  a run  halt  successful  Iowa.SIOUX CITY, IOWA - JANUARY 08: Republican statesmanlike campaigner businessman Vivek Ramaswamy greets attendees to a run halt astatine the Hampton Inn & Suites Sioux City South connected January 08, 2024 successful Sioux City, Iowa. A snowstorm has altered the schedules of respective Republican candidates successful Iowa, a authorities wherever Republicans volition beryllium the archetypal to prime their party's information for the 2024 statesmanlike contention erstwhile they spell to caucus connected January 15, 2024. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Formerly a Trump rival, Ramaswamy entered his sanction into the chapeau for Republican statesmanlike nominee successful 2023 but dropped retired astatine the opening of 2024. He endorsed Trump and became a governmental surrogate for him passim the predetermination cycle.

Ramaswamy, a Harvard graduate, earned his luck done his pharmaceutical institution Riovant Sciences, from which helium stepped down arsenic CEO successful 2021.

The entrepreneur’s nett worthy is $1 billion, according to Forbes arsenic of Nov. 15. He was named to Forbes' America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 database successful 2016.

The nett worthy of richest Congress members

The Millionaires

JD Vance's nett worth

Republican vice statesmanlike  nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks astatine  a run  event, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, successful  Auburn Hills, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)Republican vice statesmanlike nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks astatine a run event, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, successful Auburn Hills, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Vice President-elect JD Vance, a U.S. legislator from Ohio, has an estimated nett worth of astir $5 cardinal to $10 million. As vice president, Vance volition gain $235,000 per year.

The Yale Law postgraduate completed instrumentality schoolhouse without indebtedness due to the fact that of his clip successful the Marine Corps. He earned wealth done high-paying jobs astatine elite instrumentality firms and past released a publication "Hillbilly Elegy" successful 2016. Netflix aboriginal distributed a movie version.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nett worth

Independent statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends a Cesar Chavez Day lawsuit astatine Union Station connected March 30, 2024, successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

He shares the prosperous Kennedy name, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nett worthy is astir $15 million, Forbes estimates.

RFK Jr. ran an unsuccessful statesmanlike run connected the autarkic summons but withdrew from the 2024 race successful August. He endorsed Trump and was aboriginal named to Trump's Cabinet connected Thursday.

Trump's picked him to pb the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Kristi Noem's nett worth

Kristi Noem speaks astatine  the Republican National Convention.Kristi Noem, politician of South Dakota, during the Republican National Convention (RNC) astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, connected Monday, July 15, 2024. Former President Donald Trump tapped JD Vance arsenic his moving mate, elevating to the Republican statesmanlike summons a task capitalist-turned-senator whose clasp of populist authorities garnered nationalist attraction and made him a rising prima successful the party. Photographer: Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was tapped to service arsenic the Department of Homeland Security caput nether the Trump administration.

Before becoming governor, Noem was South Dakota's congressperson from 2011 to 2019.

OpenSecrets.org, a probe radical that tracks wealth successful U.S. politics, reports Noem's nett worth was $2.3 cardinal successful 2017, the past twelvemonth of published reports connected her finances.

That fig has apt changed since then.

Marco Rubio's nett worth

FILE - Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks with members of the media, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, astatine  the Capitol successful  Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)FILE - Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks with members of the media, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, astatine the Capitol successful Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., volition service arsenic the president's apical diplomat arsenic caput of authorities if his information holds.

His nett worthy was $1.2 cardinal successful 2018, according to OpenSecrets.org's most caller report. That fig has apt changed since then.

Rubio has served arsenic the elder U.S. legislator for Florida since 2011. Before that, helium was talker of the Florida House of Representatives from 2006 to 2008.

Despite a rivalry with Trump during the 2016 GOP primaries, Rubio has been a steadfast Trump protagonist since the president-elect’s archetypal term.

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