White House reportedly discussing Howard Lutnick's future as Commerce secretary

White House reportedly discussing Howard Lutnick's future as Commerce secretary

In brief

Senior White House officials are discussing whether ​Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out in the wake of the spy scandal surrounding Nvidia's now ​former ‌CEO Jensen Huang, two people familiar ⁠with the situation told Reuters on Thursday. In June, Reuters reported that the Trump administration had held ⁠off from adding China’s AI startup DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT and more than 100 other…

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