"I imagine that’s how Howard Lutnick woke up on the morning of 9/11: unaware of the tragedy unfolding before him, unaware that his world—and ours—was about to change forever. But leadership is about rising to the occasion. That’s what we saw from Secretary Duffy last week. And it’s what we can expect to see—what his colleagues did see—from Howard Lutnick, who suffered the loss of his own brother and 657 other Cantor Fitzgerald employees on 9/11. Mr. Lutnick knows the kind of pain victims’ families are facing. His life story shows he is prepared to meet the gravest of challenges. And we need him to be. In a time of great power competition, we must, as Mr. Lutnick told us, ‘stay in the lead.’ America must ‘show the world what leadership is like, what a great economy is like."
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Ted Cruz, "Sen. Cruz: We Remain Focused on Improving the Lives of the American People" (5 February 2025)
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Howard Lutnick
Howard William Lutnick (born July 14, 1961) is an American businessman who was appointed to serve as the United States Secretary of Commerce by the Trump Administration in February, 2025. He was formerly the head of Cantor Fitzgerald, a corporation affected directly by the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks in Manhattan, New York, and was an associate of the late financier Jeff Epstein.
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