Trump to Pick GOP Billionaire to Run Commerce Department Into Ground
Donald Trump
Donald Trump is expected to nominate billionaire Howard Lutnick to be secretary of commerce, according to CNN. Lutnick, the CEO of financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, has been the co-chair of Trump’s transition team since August, and has expressed support for Trump’s ill-defined plan to impose broad tariffs on foreign producers, a scheme experts say would shock the U.S. economy and cause increases in consumer prices across the board. In September, Lutnick told CNBC that “tariffs are
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