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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.
The Billionaires
Elon Musk's nett worth
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
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 Millionaires
JD Vance's nett worth
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
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.
Kristi Noem's nett worth
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
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.