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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen a billionaire

investor and Wall Street executive to lead the Commerce Department. NPR Scott Horsley reports

nominee Howard Lutnik has also been a key member of Trump's transition team and was also

being considered for the higher profile role of Treasury Secretary.

Lutnik is chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services firm that lost hundreds of

employees, including Lutnik's brother in the World Trade Center attack on 9-11.

Lutnik served as co-chair of Trump's transition team, helping to vet many of the president-elect's

other nominees.

As Commerce Secretary, he would oversee a sweeping federal bureaucracy that includes the National

Weather Service, the Census Bureau, and the agency charged with calculating the nation's gross

domestic product.

Typically, the Secretary is also a roving salesperson for U.S. exports.

That job could be complicated if Trump's threat to impose tariffs on all

imports sparks a trade war. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. President-elect Trump is nominating

Dr. Mehmet Oz to head up the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services. Trump in a statement

saying there may be no physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to make America

healthy again. The 64-year-old Oz is a cardiothoracic surgeon who hosted a TV talk show focused on health

for a decade, winning nine Emmy nominations. He unsuccessfully ran for Senate in Pennsylvania.

Oz would work with Trump's nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services,

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