USA: Trump Nominates Secretaries for Treasury and Commerce

Steven Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross confirmed today to financial network CNBC they had been nominated by U.S. President elect Donald Trump to asume the secretaries of the Treasury and Commerce, respectively and are pending of confirmation by the Senate.

Mnuchin was in charge of the administration of finances in the Trump campaign for the elections of November 8 and worked for the financial group Goldman Sachs, while Ross is president and strategy chief of the private firm W.L. Ross & Co.

Jessica Mackler, director of the non-government organization American Bridge, criticized the appointment of Mnuchin and said he made almost three billion dollars from people's misery in the crisis of 2008.

Putting an executive of Wall Street to supervise from the White House that entity it is dangerous and shows that Trump is only interested in protecting corporations at the expense of working families, added Mackler.

Ross, who according to Forbes magazine, has a fortune of about three billion dollars, obtained most of his estate from the reestructuring of bankrupt companies in the steel and manufacturing industries.