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title: "Sources: Scott Bessent confronted Howard Lutnick last week over the Commerce Department not adding Megaspeed to its entity list; the agency denies it occurred (Axios)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-scott-bessent-confronted-howard-lutnick-last-week-over-the-0e2e7ae6
published: 2026-11-11T22:45:00.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Sources: Scott Bessent confronted Howard Lutnick last week over the Commerce Department not adding Megaspeed to its entity list; the agency denies it occurred (Axios)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-11 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-scott-bessent-confronted-howard-lutnick-last-week-over-the-0e2e7ae6

Axios : Sources: Scott Bessent confronted Howard Lutnick last week over the Commerce Department not adding Megaspeed to its entity list; the agency denies it occurred — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over a failure to place Nvidia customer Megaspeed …

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261111/p45#a261111p45)

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