The Swamp

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... around 75 positions which include ten billionaires in the cabinet and techbros of Silicon Valley...
-- Elon Musk — Govt contracts for spaceX; DOGE coin, Tesla
-- Jeff Bezos — WaPo, helping trump deregulate any way he can
-- Mark Zuckerberg — Meta, Facebook AI
-- Mark Benioff — TIME Magazine
-- Sundar Pichai -- Google
-- Sam Altman -- OpenAI

...all rich sellouts/lobbyists to the dictator.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/12/12/trumps-cabinet-and-key-jobs-kari-lake-jacob-helberg-and-leandro-rizzuto-jr-are-latest-picks/


-- Kari Lake — VOA
-- Leandro Rizzuto, Jr., heir to Conair — Dir OAS
-- Jacob Helberg — State Dept advisor (former Biden donor pushing a free-for-all AI policy; tech exec known as Silicon Valley China hawk; advisor to CEO at Palantir
Technologies (business front for the CIA/NSA); serves on the US-China Economic & Security Review Commission and key lobbyist role in Congress to ban TikTok
-- Michael Rigas — Dep Sec of State for mgmt and resources
-- Daniel Newlin — ambassador to Colombia

-- Peter Lemelas — ambassador to Argentina
-- Ronald Johnson — ambassador to Mexico requires Senate confirmation (who’d work closely with Marco Rubio at State)
-- Ed Martin — OMB Chief of Staff
-- Mark Meador — FTC commissioner focusing on antitrust, and in DOJ’s antitrust division
-- Kimberly Guilfoyle — ambassador to Greece

-- Tom Barrack — ambassador to Turkey
-- Dan Bishop — Dep Dir of Budget at OMB
-- Harmeet Dhillon — DOJ office of civil rights (former vice chair of CA’s Rep Party)
-- Mark Paoletta — OMB General Counsel, working with DOGE
-- Alina Habba — Counselor to the President

-- Christopher Landau — Dep Sec of State
-- Michael Anton — Dir of Policy Planning for State Dept
-- Michael Needham — State Dept Counselor, advising Marco Rubio
-- David Sacks — AI & Crypto Czar (former COO at PayPal) will lead Pres. Council on Advisors for Science & Technology
-- David Perdue —ambassador to China top executive at several companies including Reebok, Sara Lee and Dollar General, where he played a key role in outsourcing manufacturing to China, Hong Kong and other Asian countries.

-- Rodney Scott — US Customs & Border Protection Commissioner
-- Frank Bisignano — Soc Security Administration Commissioner
-- Kelly Loefller — Small Business Administration, overseeing billions of dollars worth of loans and disaster aid to small businesses.
-- David Warrington — WH Counsel
-- Billy Long — IRS Commissioner

-- David Warrington — WH Counsel
-- Wm McGinley — lead counsel for DOGE
-- Monica Crowley — Asst Sec of State & Chief Protocol of US
-- Paul Atkins — SEC Commission Chair
-- Jared Isaacman — NASA Administrator

-- Daniel Driscoll — Army Secretary
-- Adam Boehler — Envoy for Hostage Affairs
-- Warren Stephens — ambassador to UK
-- Massad Boulos — Senior Advisor on Arab & ME affairs
-- Kash Patel — FBI Dir

-- Chas Kushner — ambassador to France
-- Keith Kellogg — Spec Envoy for Ukraine and Russia (retired Lt Gen. and former chief of staff for WH Nat’ Security Council
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya — NIH Jamieson Greer — US Trade Rep Keven Hassett — Dir Natl Economic Council 2020, Bhattacharya co-authored an open letter titled the “Great Barrington Declaration” which argued against the effectiveness of Covid-19 lockdowns. The letter, which was criticized by health experts including Dr. Anthony Fauci, argued for “herd immunity”
-- Jamieson Greer — US Trade Rep
-- Keven Hassett — Dir Natl Economic Council

-- Vince Haley — Domestic Policy Council Jim O’Neill — DHHS oversee several key domestic issues, including “healthcare, immigration and education.” Haley has worked with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., for several decades and even served as the campaign manager of his 2012 presidential bid. Haley also worked under Stephen Miller
-- Jim O’Neill — DHHS Dep Sec
-- John Phelan — Sec of Navy
-- Scott Bessent — Sec of Treasury
-- Pam Bondi — AG

-- RFK, JR — HHS Sec
-- Marco Rubio — Sec of State
-- Tulsi Gabbard — DNI
-- Linda McMahon — Sec of Education
-- Howard Lutnick — Sec of Commerce

-- Brooke Rollins — Sec of Agriculture
-- Mehmet Oz — Admin Medicare and Medicaid services
-- Susie Wiles — WH Chief of Staff
-- Musk & Ramaswamy — DOGE
-- Russell Vought — OMB

-- Kristi Noem — Sec of Homeland Security
-- Stephen Miller — Homeland Sec Adviser & Dep Chief of Staff for Policy
-- Tom Homan — Border Czar
-- Dave Weldon — Dir of CDC Commissioner
-- Marty Makary — Com of FDA

-- Janette Nesheiwat — Surgeon General
-- Lori Chavez-Deremer — Sec of Labor
-- Sebastian Gorka — Sr Dir for counterterrorism
-- Scott Turner— Sec of HUD
-- Mike Walz — Natl Security Adviser

-- Doug Burgum — Sec of Interior & Head of Nat’l Energy Council
-- Chris Wright — Sec of Energy
-- Sean Duffy — Sec of Transportation
-- Doug Collins — Sec of Veterans Affairs
-- John Ratcliffe — Dir CIA

-- Lee Zeldin — Admin EPA
-- Brendan Carr — Chair FCC
-- Elise Stefanik — ambassador to UN
-- Steven Witkoff — Specl Envoy to ME
-- Matthew Whitaker — ambassador to NATO

-- Mike Huckabee — ambassador to Israel
-- Karoline leavitt — WH Press Sec
-- Steven Cheung — WH Comms Dir
— DEA admin, TBA
-- Pete Hegseth -- Sec of Defense

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