The Treasury is overwhelmingly white and male — and officials say it's become a problem

The U.S. Treasury hasn't had many policy disagreements lately. That's not necessarily a good thing.

It's no secret that President Trump's top officials at the Treasury Department are largely white, male, and wealthy. That lack of diversity recently sprouted to the surface as delays stymie a proposal to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. But as current and former officials tell Politico, that's just a public manifestation of a much deeper problem.

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A delay in what was supposed to be the 2020 introduction of a Tubman $20 bill sparked mentions of the department's lack of diversity and even accusations of racism. But "more than a dozen current and former Trump administration and Treasury officials ticked off examples that openly highlighted the lack of diversity" far beyond the Tubman example, Politico says.

A Treasury spokesperson defended the current administration's hiring practices, saying the Treasury's entire workforce is 44 percent women under Trump and was 48 percent women under former President Barack Obama. Read more at Politico.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.