President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his cabinet have a combined wealth of more than $14 billion, a huge number that includes four billionaires.
NBC News pulled together some numbers from various sources and discovered that the total net worth of Trump's nominated cabinet stands around $14.5 billion. And he's less than halfway through naming all of his picks.
Trump himself is a billionaire, with Forbes estimating his net worth to be $3.7 billion.
A brief look at the fortunes of Trump's cabinet picks this far:
- Todd Ricketts, Deputy Secretary of Commerce: $5.3 billion
- Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education: $5.1 billion
- Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce: $2.9 billion
- Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury: $46 million
- Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: $26 million
- Elaine Chao, Secretary of Transportation: $16.9 million
- Tom Price, Secretary of Health and Human Services: $13.6 million
- Jeff Sessions, Attorney General: $15.8 million
- Linda McMahon, Head of Small Business Administration: $1.16 billion (with husband Vince McMahon)
Trump said he would release "almost all" of his remaining cabinet picks this week.
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