Vice President JD Vance swore in Howard Lutnick as Trump's secretary of commerce at the White House on Friday.

President Donald Trump swore in Howard Lutnick as his secretary of commerce at the White House Friday. Lutnick has voiced support for Trump’s tariff proposals, and said during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce,

The president is expected to sign an executive order that would fire the governing board of the U.S. Postal Service and leave the agency to the Commerce Department and secretary Howard Lutnick, per reports.

President Donald Trump holds the proclamation for the newly sworn-in Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Pool

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and FBI Director Kash Patel were sworn in on Friday. Kash Patel was sworn in to be Trump's FBI director on Friday by Attorney General Pam Bondi. Kash Patel is sworn in as FBI director by Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington,

Several federal judges on Friday temporarily halted or continued to halt the Trump administration from carrying out various initiatives, including ones governing diversity efforts, access to personal data at Treasury for DOGE representatives and cutting the rate that the National Institutes of Health pays grant recipients.

A top White House official has threatened to redraw the Canadian border amid Donald Trump’s ambition to turn the country in America’s “51st state...

Tariffs, if they are imposed, could boost U.S. production of a valuable resource but also raise costs for automakers, construction companies and others.

Meanwhile, more of the president's nominees are being installed. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and FBI Director Kash Patel were sworn in on Friday. Howard Lutnick, the former CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, was sworn in as commerce secretary on Friday at the White House.

The Senate has confirmed wealthy financier Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary. The confirmation vote Tuesday puts Lutnick in charge of the Commerce Department, where he will oversee 50,000 employees

President Trump on Tuesday directed his Commerce secretary to investigate the need for possible tariffs on copper, the latest industry to potentially be targeted by Trump’s sweeping trade agenda.