Guy who shipped 2,700 jobs overseas since 2004 is new U.S. commerce secretary. #MAGA!

[Miles Archer]

Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross was sworn in as U.S. commerce secretary on Tuesday after helping shape Republican President Donald Trump's opposition to multilateral trade deals.

Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office to Ross, 79, a day after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm the corporate turnaround expert's nomination, with strong support from Democrats.

While commerce secretaries rarely take the spotlight in Washington, Ross is expected to play an outsize role in pursuing Trump's campaign pledge to slash U.S. trade deficits and bring manufacturing jobs back to America.

Some Democrats criticized Ross as another billionaire in a Trump Cabinet that says it is focused on the working class and for being a "vulture" investor who has eliminated some jobs. Reuters reported last month that Ross's companies had shipped some 2,700 jobs overseas since 2004.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-commerce-idUSKBN1671XC?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

[bettyellen]

1. And biggest stockholder in that Cyprus bank that's been money laundering for Russian oligarchs....

Like the one that grossly overpaid Trump for that ugly house. The most expensive house ever sold in America.

[shenmue]

2. This asshole

[democratisphere]

3. Wilber Ross is a slimey fraud and the fact that he is now Commerce Secretary says how corrupt

the current WH is.

[Vinca]

4. Isn't he the guy Rachel mentioned re money laundering?

[GliderGuider]

5. Shared the Chairmanship of Cyprus Bank with a former KGB agent.

Tool of the Eastern Oligarchy.