U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name a former banker and a billionaire investor as his nominees for treasury secretary and commerce secretary respectively, and a fierce Obamacare critic to hold the post of health and human services secretary, media reported Tuesday.
Three weeks after winning the U.S. presidential election, what the president-elect has said and done are gradually outlining his administration's policies, both domestically and abroad.
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Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs partner and Hollywood financier, is expected to be nominated as Treasury secretary by Trump, a source told Reuters. As a Wall Street veteran, Mnuchin has also served as Trump's campaign finance chairman.
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross is expected to be named commerce secretary.
The announcements could come as early as Wednesday, the report said.
It also said that without governing experience, Trump, a New York real estate billionaire, is rewarding loyalists and established Washington veterans in "the flurry of picks" as he fills top jobs for his administration.
Trump is set to take office on Jan. 20.
On Tuesday, Trump nominated Chinese-American Elaine Chao as the secretary of transportation, who is set to play a key role in fulfilling Trump's election promise of overhauling U.S. transportation infrastructure.
According to Trump's transition website, he plans to invest 550 billion U.S. dollars to "build the roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, and railways of tomorrow."
Trump is also considering making either former CIA Director David Petraeus, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney or former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani secretary of state, according to media reports.
Also on Tuesday, Trump chose Tom Price, a six-term Republican congressman who firmly opposes President Barack Obama's health care law, to be secretary of health and human services.
Price "is exceptionally qualified to shepherd our commitment to repeal and replace Obamacare and bring affordable and accessible health care to every American," Trump said in an announcement.
