President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees include several who have financially backed the same people now charged with determining if they are qualified for their new posts.

Five of Mr. Trump’s nominees—Sen. Jeff Sessions, Reps. Tom Price, Mike Pompeo and Mick Mulvaney and former Sen. Dan Coats—have collectively donated about $106,000 to senators sitting on the committees conducting their confirmation hearings, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Federal Election Commission data for the past six years.

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