Trump has assembled least diverse US government this century, study shows [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Fri 21 Nov 2025 08.00 EST
Last modified on Fri 21 Nov 2025 08.02 EST
Donald Trump has assembled the least diverse US government of the 21st century, filling the corridors of power with white men at the expense of women and people of colour, research shows. Nine in 10 individuals confirmed by the Senate in the first 300 days of the second Trump administration were white, according to the Brookings Institution thinktank in Washington.
The total percentage of women confirmed was just 16%, the lowest rate among the past four administrations including Trump’s first term (23%).
“For the Biden administration at the one-year point it was 50% male, 50% female and right now in the Trump administration it’s 84% male, 16% female,” Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, director of the initiative on improving inter-branch relations and government, told the Guardian in an interview at Brookings on Wednesday. “Probably that’s the starkest contrast. But even if you go all the way back to George W Bush in 2001, Trump’s confirmed nominees are whiter and less ethnically diverse and more male than his predecessors going back that far.”
Trump claims to have broad appeal, pointing to vocal groups such as Women for Trump and incremental gains among Latino and Black voters in last year’s presidential election. But his actions as president suggest that diversity as a hiring priority has been explicitly abandoned.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/trump-government-diversity
Link to Brookings Institution REPORT - Tracking President Trump’s second-term Cabinet and appointees
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