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title: "Sources: senior White House officials are discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out in the wake of the Nvidia spy scandal (Reuters)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-senior-white-house-officials-are-discussing-whether-commerce-bdbbe848
published: 2026-11-12T19:20:04.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Sources: senior White House officials are discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out in the wake of the Nvidia spy scandal (Reuters)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-12 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-senior-white-house-officials-are-discussing-whether-commerce-bdbbe848

Reuters : Sources: senior White House officials are discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out in the wake of the Nvidia spy scandal — Senior White House officials are discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out in the wake …

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261112/p48#a261112p48)

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