US Senate confirms Howard Lutnick to head Commerce Department

The US Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Wall Street billionaire Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary, a key step towards the rollout of President Donald Trump's "America First" trade agenda, which uses tariffs as a broad negotiation tool. The commerce secretary has a broad agenda to implement, and negotiations with some of the United States' biggest trading partners to contend with.
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