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 int

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