The White House on Monday expressed confidence in Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after several lawmakers called for him to resign or be ousted.
“President Trump has assembled the best and most transformative cabinet in modern history,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said in an email. “The entire Trump administration, including Secretary Lutnick and the Department of Commerce, remains focused on delivering for the American people.”
Three members of Congress since Sunday called on Lutnick to resign amid revelations that his business and personal dealings with deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein were more extensive than previously known.
Lutnick “lied to the country about his ties to Epstein,” Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., wrote in an X post Monday morning.
“Now we learned that they were in business together,” Schiff wrote. “He has no business being our Commerce Secretary. He should resign.”