Trump nominates Jewish transition team co-chair as commerce secretary

(JNS) — President-elect Donald Trump named Howard Lutnick, the Jewish billionaire and chair and CEO of the global finance firm Cantor Fitzgerald, as his nominee for U.S. commerce secretary on Tuesday.

Trump stated that Lutnick, the co-chair of his transition team, “will lead our tariff and trade agenda, with additional direct responsibility for the Office of the United States Trade Representative.”

“Another outstanding addition to President Donald Trump’s America first team,” wrote Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Trump’s pick for U.S. envoy to the United Nations. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)...