Howard Lutnick
Commerce Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce. On 2 shows, 4 appearances, plus 2 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Howard Lutnick is the U.S. Commerce Secretary and led Donald Trump's presidential transition team. He is known for his decades-long relationship with Donald Trump, overseeing international trade policies, tariffs, and government software modernization efforts.
2shows
4appearances
79statements
34resolved
12supported
13contradicted
35%fully supported
95said about them ↓ Everything Howard Lutnick said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Lutnick: US tariff revenues will grow from $500B to $1T per year
“And then you have the tariffs are five hundred billion a year now, and they will grow over time to a trillion a year”
Lutnick predicts US GDP growth will reach 5% in early 2026
“They could be this quarter, as in the first quarter, so then I'd say, well, you have to come back and see me when it's through five, but then you'll come back in a couple of months, and then you'd say, Howard, I just spoke to you for an hour. I don't, you know…”
Lutnick predicts 6% US GDP growth if Fed cuts interest rates
“And then if they cut rates, and that's the thing, I need a new Fed chair who cuts rates, and if they cut rates... You'll see sixes.”
Lutnick: US government will acquire a 9.9% equity stake in Intel
“And at three o'clock, we're going to sign the document together in the Oval Office, where the United States of America will own 9.9% of the great American technology company Intel.”
Lutnick: Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are building U.S. government software for free
“I go to the heads of Google and Microsoft and Amazon. They're all For America. Building for us. Right. For free. Right. To make America better.”
Lutnick attributes newborn hepatitis B vaccine mandates to government corruption
“You know what it is? You know what the answer is? Corruption. That someone in the government got paid to put that in the rules.”
Lutnick: Japan committed $550B to finance US infrastructure projects
“So what we came up with was Five hundred and fifty billion dollars. That this is not foreign direct investment. This is not Toyota building a factory in America. This is, they literally will finance Any project we want to build in America, as long as it's like…”
Lutnick: Tariff revenues fund proposed tax exemptions on tips and Social Security
“Who paid for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security. Right? Tariffs.”
Lutnick: Ozempic and Mounjaro added to Medicare and Medicaid for $149
“So, the result is Ozempic and Munjara are on Medicaid and Medicare. For a hundred and 49 dollars instead of not on it.”
Lutnick: Merck agreed to offer top drug free to Medicare and Medicaid
“One of the drug companies, Merck, said they're gonna just give us their number one drug in the world. They're gonna give it to Medicaid and Medicare for zero.”
Lutnick: H-1B visas should target $500k engineers, not $60k graduates
“Yeah, I mean, look, I think H-B is fantastic for someone who makes 500,000 dollars who's a cool engineer. But it's not ok if it's a 60,000 dollar college graduate.”
Lutnick: TSMC agreed to increase US investment from $60B to $160B
“So instead of building sixty billion, you build a hundred and sixty billion. And we agreed.”
Lutnick: 6% GDP growth will fix the federal deficit and taxes
“Imagine if you grow six percent. You're gonna fix the deficit. You're gonna fix taxes. You're gonna fix all.”
Lutnick: Japan committed $550 billion to finance U.S. infrastructure
“So they've committed five hundred and fifty billion dollars to finance Projects in America that are important to the president and to American infrastructure.”
Lutnick: US can cut $1T in spending and gain $1T through tariffs
“I think we're gonna cut a trillion dollars a year in expense, and then I think we can, through tariffs and other means, we're gonna get revenues of a trillion dollars.”
Lutnick: US national balance sheet is worth $500 trillion
“What's our balance sheet worth? I say 500 trillion dollars. The president says a quadrillion. But at 500 trillion or quadrillion, 36 trillion? We're rich.”
Lutnick: Federal government inflates pre-election GDP with spending spikes
“And I'm going to break it out for the last 20 years. And what you're going to see is, Every time the quarter just before an election, all the government spending happens right then and there. It's all of a sudden you have this jump in GDP. Right. Total lie. To…”
Lutnick: $200 billion in PPP funds went to Chinese fraud gangs
“So it was proven that two hundred billion of the 1.2 trillion was going to Chinese Fraud gangs.”
Lutnick: No country practices free trade and US is the least protective
“There is no country in this world that is free trade. Zero. And we are the lowest and the dumbest, because everybody else is higher and more protective.”
Lutnick: Tariffs drove $2 trillion of committed domestic production to US
“Two trillion dollars of committed domestic production coming back because of his tariffs.”
Lutnick: Eliminating income taxes on workers will bring labor costs down
“Labor costs come smashing down because it's tax-free. So if their earnings are tax-free, right, then they're happy to work because they get the money. So what happens is cost of labor comes down because we're run correctly as a government.”
Lutnick says he sold 1,000 $5M investor visas in one day
“And by the way, ah, yesterday I sold a thousand.”
Lutnick: Chinese AI apps should be banned, but open-source code permitted
“And I don't think we should be having apps in America. And I don't think we should have their website in America because they all go back home. Ok, but it's open source and I want our American companies including college students to be able to download it and …”
The other half of the tape: Howard Lutnick's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 92 times in 45 episodes across the shows. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 40David Friedberg 11Chamath Palihapitiya 9Donald J. Trump 5David Sacks 5John Coogan 4Michael Tracey 3Ben Shapiro 2
Statements about Howard Lutnick, by other people (3)
Mohnot: Trump tariffs aim for reshoring, not reciprocal trade
“I think that's bullshit because, like, you have Lutnik saying, like, we need millions of Americans screwing in tiny iPhones or whatever. And you, and they also say that the tariffs are going to replace income taxes. So if those things are true, then it's not a…”
Hammond: Commerce Department is delaying Nvidia H20 export controls over tariffs
“The commerce department has, you know, Howard Lutnick has said that he's going to export control the age 20, but they're so distracted by tariffs. They haven't prioritized it. And the time is kind of running out.”
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2026 23 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
- ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping
- Iran's Breaking Point, Trump's Greenland Acquisition, and Solving Energy Costs
- Apple-Intel Chip Deal, U.S Adds 115K Jobs, DeepSeek Eyes $50B Valuation | Diet TBPN
- OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
- All-In's 2026 Predictions
- The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 68 mentions in 33 episodes 2 per episode
- Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
- DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias
- The AI Cold War, Signalgate, CoreWeave IPO, Tariff Endgames, El Salvador Deportations
- Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan
- Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- Home Affordability Crisis, Palantir's Advantage, Big Short on AI, H-1B Abuse, Solar Storm Hits Earth
- Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
- 25 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
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| ALL-INLEDGER | Commerce Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce | 4 | 78 | 33% 11/33 | full record on All-In → |
| TBPNLEDGER | 0 +2 | 1 | 100% 1/1 | full record on TBPN → |