MONEY BAGS

Disclosures Show 27 White House Officials Worth a Combined $2.3B

In an administration that pledged to fight for the working class.

President Trump’s top White House aides started their jobs with millions of dollars in the bank, according to recently disclosed financial records cited by the Washington Post. Twenty-seven of Trump’s top aides had a combined $2.3 billion in assets when they joined the White House, the report said. In addition to the $741 million held by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in real-estate holdings, economic adviser Gary Cohn also owned a large chunk of the total, with $250 million in assets. Julie Hahn, an aide to chief strategist Steve Bannon, reported investments worth between $1.1 million and $2.5 million. Bannon held assets between $11.8 million and $53.8 million, according to the disclosures. The disclosures, filed by about 180 White House staffers and released Friday, show a White House run by the financial elite in an administration that has vowed to serve the working class. “The president has brought a lot of people into this administration, into this White House, in particular, who have been very blessed and very successful by this country and have given up a lot to come into the government by setting aside a lot of assets,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Friday about the revelations. Spicer was also included in the financial disclosures, with between $2.9 million and $6.6 million in assets.