Howard Lutnick Confirmed as Trump’s Commerce Secretary

Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Commerce, has been confirmed by the Senate in a 51–45 vote. Prior to the upper chamber vote, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) touted Lutnick’s success on Wall Street and his work with Sept. 11 survivors. “I am glad President Trump has chosen an outcome-driven leader,” Thune said in prepared remarks. “Howard Lutnick’s greatest business achievement is not building his own success or building up a company; it was rebuilding Cantor Fitzgerald.” The headquarters of the financial services firm was in the North Tower of the World Trade Center, just above the impact site of one of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. All of its 658 employees in the office that day died....