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Reuters: Senior White House Officials Discussing Whether to Push Out Commerce Secretary Lutnick

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Reuters reports senior White House officials are debating whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out in the wake of the Nvidia spy scandal. Lutnick's handling of the Megaspeed Entity List delay had already drawn internal pushback from Treasury Secretary Bessent, and the new reporting signals the issue has escalated to a potential personnel change at the department running US AI chip-export policy.