GOP Turns On Lutnick Over Chips

“The blast radius from Nvidia’s espionage scandal is now spreading to the Commerce Department, potentially setting up Secretary Howard Lutnick or other agency leaders to be the Trump administration’s scapegoats,” Politico reports.

“Recent reports that the Commerce Department failed to take action on Megaspeed, the Singapore-based firm at the center of the spying and chip-smuggling allegations, have intensified scrutiny of the agency’s decisions to allow more foreign chip sales, particularly of Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence chips.”

“Over the past 24 hours, more than half a dozen Republicans have demanded answers — and potentially congressional testimony – from Lutnick and top deputies over whether they put private tech interests above national security.”