The Senate confirmed billionaire Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary on Tuesday, in a 51-45 vote.

The Senate confirmed billionaire Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary on Tuesday, in a 51-45 vote. In his new role, the finance mogul will advise President Donald Trump on economic growth and job ...

The former chair of the Wall Street firm abandoned his post as he was confirmed as the United States Commerce Secretary.

Lutnick will oversee 50,000 employees who do everything from collecting economic statistics to running the census to issuing weather reports.

said the agency had not yet been subjected to the steep cuts announced elsewhere due to the then-pending c o nfirmation of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The Commerce Department oversees NOAA ...

The president’s Friday included a lunch with Vance, the swearing in of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and signing more executive orders. Follow The Hill’s live updates here.

President Donald Trump could “dissolve the leadership” at the U.S. Postal Service as soon as the end of this week and have the agency merge with the Commerce Department, The Washington Post ...

WASHINGTON: Howard Lutnick, president Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Commerce Department, offers a detailed defence of tariffs in his confirmation hearing, the clearest signal yet from a ...

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Trump made the remarks at the swearing-in of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. He called the move a way to stop losses at the $78 billion-a-year agency, which has struggled to balance the books ...