White House weighs pushing out Commerce chief Lutnick, Reuters says

Senior White House officials are discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out, two people familiar with the situation told Reuters on Thursday. The internal talks follow a spy scandal surrounding Jensen Huang, Nvidia's now former CEO, according to the report. Lutnick has not publicly responded.

The discussions land on the Commerce Department, the agency that handles export controls and the trade blacklist at the heart of the story. In June, Reuters reported the Trump administration held off adding China's AI startup DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT and more than 100 other companies flagged as national security risks to that blacklist.

Reuters' sources did not describe a timeline for a decision, or say who might replace Lutnick if he goes. FRANCE 24's Wassim Cornet reported from Los Angeles.