WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump promised to "drain the swamp" in the nation's capital. Instead, he appears to be diving right in.

So far, the president-elect is tapping people with deep ties to Washington and Wall Street as he fills out his Cabinet, turning to two power centers he vilified as greedy, corrupt and out of touch with Americans during his White House campaign.

His choices have won praise from Republicans relieved by his more conventional choices but could risk angering voters who rallied behind his calls for upending the political system.

Two of Trump's early picks are wealthy financial-industry insiders with ties to the kinds of institutions he railed against as a candidate.

Elaine Chao, his choice for transportation secretary and an accomplished political figure in her own right, is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- blending family and political power in a way for which Trump fiercely criticized campaign rival Hillary Clinton.

Jeff Sessions, Trump's selection for attorney general, has spent two decades in the Senate, and Tom Price, his health and human services nominee, is a six-term congressman.

The gap between Trump's campaign rhetoric and his governing decisions is most striking regarding his emerging economic team.

On Wednesday, he announced he planned to nominate former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin as his Treasury secretary and billionaire investor Wilbur Ross to lead the Commerce Department.

As a candidate, Trump said Wall Street had created "tremendous problems" for the country. He included the CEO of Goldman Sachs in a television advertisement that accused global financial powers of having "robbed our working class."

Mnuchin and Ross also have financial links to Trump's White House bid, with Mnuchin having led the campaign's fundraising efforts.

Trump repeatedly bragged his personal wealth -- he mostly self-funded his campaign during the primaries -- meant he would not be beholden to donors who might expect their financial contributions to be repaid with powerful jobs or insider access.

"I can't be bought," Trump said during the campaign. "I won't owe anybody anything."

Trump's transition team brushed aside questions about whether there are inconsistencies between the president-elect's campaign rhetoric and his Cabinet picks.

By picking billionaires, as well as a smattering of millionaires, for his Cabinet, Trump is asking voters to trust privileged insiders can help a stressed and dispirited middle class -- even though he, like past presidential candidates, promised he would change that dynamic.