Senior White House officials are discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out, two people familiar with the situation said on Thursday. The discussions are tied to a spy scandal surrounding Nvidia's now-former CEO Jensen Huang, and a growing number of lawmakers have criticised Lutnick over the administration's handling of the matter.

Lawmakers have pressed Lutnick over the administration's refusal to add dozens of Chinese companies to a key US trade blacklist. Reuters reported in June that the Trump administration had held off on adding China's AI startup DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT and more than 100 other companies flagged as national security risks to the list. Critics have also questioned whether the government was properly overseeing Nvidia's exports to China.S1S2