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TikTok will go dark in US without Chinese approval of sale deal, US commerce secretary says
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Thursday that TikTok will have to stop operating in the United States if China ...
Trump Commerce Secretary Dishes On President’s Bizarre Bedtime Calls
President Donald Trump tucks his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, into bed with a phone call most nights, according to a ...
Trump Commerce Secretary Lutnick says U.S. auto CEOs are ‘cool with' higher tariffs than Japan
The head of the American Automotive Policy Council, which represents General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, raised concerns ...
TikTok Will ‘Go Dark’ Soon if China Does Not Strike Deal, Commerce Secretary Says
TikTok will “go dark” if China does not cut a deal with the Trump administration that transfers control of the app’s ...
Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them
A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is letting clients essentially bet that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will be struck down in ...
US commerce secretary says next week’s China trade talks could include TikTok
Without divestment deal for ByteDance, app will go dark in US and ‘those decisions are coming very soon’, Lutnick says.
Kansas commerce secretary laments taxpayer cost of repeat audits of grant program
The new chapter in the auditing series focused on Kansas’ decision to require grant recipients to contribute a 25% match to qualify for an ARPA award. Auditors reviewed the decision to allow ...
Commerce honcho Lutnick and Trump talk ‘most nights’: report
Lutnick and President Donald Trump speak on the phone most nights, at around one in the morning, just after Lutnick gets in ...