“I think this deal is done. They've already worked it out. That's why we're all together with the president. [Lutnick, on whether the state and local incentive package for the plant had been finalized.]
Secretary of Commerce • New York
Secretary of Commerce since January 2025. CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald.
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“It's not tax money. … [We will] earn the money that Donald Trump wants to pay out, not from the deficit and not from taxpayers.
“I misspoke. 18 members of our military have died, and to those families my heart breaks and I am so very sorry for their loss.
“The way the president is playing Iran — there haven't been American deaths, it's really just an economic choke out.
“We need our drugs made in America, and then that brings jobs and investment in America.
“They're bringing their manufacturing home. Ford is going to rock us with bringing manufacturing back to America. … Thousands of jobs, thousands and thousands of jobs coming back to America because of these tariffs on automotives.
“Of these millions and millions of documents, there may be 10 emails connecting me with him… over a 14 year period. I did not have any relationship with him. I barely had anything to do with that person.
“I did have lunch with him...I don't recall why we did it.