After years on the sideline, Goldman Sachs and the rest of the Wall Street elite are poised to come roaring back.

Trump has already picked several Goldman Sachs alums for several key positions. Steven Mnuchin, a 17-year veteran of the bank, is slated to be the next Treasury Secretary and Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, worked on mergers and acquisition deals for Goldman Sachs. Hedge fund manger Anthony Scaramucci began his career at the New York bank and has emerged as one of Trump’s closest advisers on his presidential transition. According to Politico, Cohn, a 26-year veteran of the Goldman Sachs, is being considered for a position heading the Office of Management and Budget.

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Goldman Sachs’ sometimes controversial relationship with Washington goes back decades. One of its founders, Henry Goldman, advised on the creation of the Federal Reserve. President Franklin D. Roosevelt chose Goldman CEO Sidney Weinberg to serve on the War Production Board during World War II. And more recently, President Bill Clinton named former Goldman co-chairman Robert Rubin to head the Treasury Department. George W. Bush picked Henry Paulson, another Goldman alum for the same job.

Each in turn filled the government ranks with so many more former Goldman executives that the bank eventually earned the nickname “Government Sachs.”

“The Goldman organization has always been able to make sure they are close to power, they are very good at cultivating and maintaining relationships,” said Christopher Whalen, head of research for Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

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Trump’s elevation of so many Goldman alums may signal a wider shift in Wall Street’s public standing, which has been battered since the 2008 financial crisis, industry analysts say. Even Trump played to public distrust, releasing a television ad that flashed an image of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein as the Republican candidate warned of a “global power structure” that was robbing American workers.

The public’s resentment towards Goldman Sachs was so deep that Blankfein initially demurred when asked who he would vote for. “I don’t want to help or hurt anybody by giving them my endorsement,” Blankfein, who has previously supported Hillary Clinton, told CNBC.

Wall Street insiders widely expected to be largely left on the sidelines if Hillary Clinton had won the White House. They felt Clinton would have found it difficult to resist pressure by progressives in the Democratic Party that she be tough on Wall Street.

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But the tone has shifted since Trump’s election. “After Nov. 8, you could say the financial crisis was over,” said Mike Mayo, a banking analyst and managing director with global boutique brokerage firm CLSA. “It was a pivot from rebuilding the banking industry to using banks to better facilitate better economic growth.”

That has some progressive groups crying foul. “These guys are galactic deal-makers, transaction merchants, not people who face the extraordinary littleness of life,” said Bart Naylor of Public Citizen. “They also know each other, attend each other’s weddings, buy each other’s Hamptons mansions … When it comes to financial policy, they know about spreads and liquidity, but not about what you can’t buy with food stamps or changes in bus schedules.”

Goldman Sachs is no stranger to such talk. The bank has been best known as a secretive, Wall Street dealmaker with the ear of the White House. It helps big institutions and billionaires bet on the markets and large corporations raise money, but until recently had little interaction with average investors — clients must have at least $10 million for its wealth-management services.

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But in recent years it has tried to soften its image. It has launched programs to help women entrepreneurs, produced regular podcasts, and earlier this year offered a high-yield online savings accounts for those with as little as $1.

If Trump taps Cohn, currently the bank’s president, for a position in his administration, it would send Goldman scrambling to find a replacement. Cohn, who has been at the bank since 1990, has been widely viewed as heir apparent, poised to become CEO when Blankfein retired.