Funding for a portion of the federal government expired on September 30, 2025. The Department of Commerce is prepared for a lapse in funding that would necessitate a significant reduction in operations and is currently implementing its plan. Read the United States Department of Commerce Plan for Orderly Shutdown Due to Lapse of Congressional Appropriations (September 2025). The Democrat-led...

On September 19, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to create the Gold Card visa program, facilitating expedited immigration for aliens who make significant financial gifts to the United States.

• The Order directs the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security, to establish a “Gold Card” program.
  • The program facilitates expedited

Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that registration is open for the 2026 SelectUSA Investment Summit to be held May 3 - 6, 2026 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. The SelectUSA Investment Summit is the premier event dedicated to promoting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States, with a focus on connecting...

Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce celebrated a historic U.S. transportation commercial deal between Wabtec Corporation and the Government of Kazakhstan, with a signing ceremony during the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Under this $4.2 billion agreement, Wabtec Corporation will provide 300 locomotives to Kazakhstan – the largest rail equipment deal in history. “Today’s...

By Brooke L. Rollins and Howard Lutnick In 1787, Alexander Hamilton stressed the need for a united national effort to protect America’s ocean resources from stagnation and unfair foreign trade practices. Absent vigorous federal action to free our fisheries from barriers to growth and trade, “that unequalled spirit of enterprise, which signalises the genius of the American Merchants and Navigators...

Twenty-four years ago Thursday, evil took 2,977 innocent lives in the deadliest terror attack ever carried out on American soil. Among those murdered were my brother Gary, my best friend Doug, and 656 other colleagues and friends of mine from Cantor Fitzgerald. I’m only alive today because that fateful Tuesday was my oldest son’s first day of kindergarten. That morning, instead of going to our...

Today, we honor the innocent lives lost on September 11, 2001. We remember the bravery of first responders, the strength of survivors, and the resilience of our nation. 24 years later, America stands tall—steadfast and unshaken. We will never forget.

OP-ED by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: From 9/11 to Charlie Kirk’s murder, America faces evil — and defeats it with its goodness

Today, Secretary Howard W. Lutnick hosted the Department of Commerce’s Alaska Seafood Roundtable alongside Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, the Alaska delegation, and fishermen representing the Last Frontier. Alaska’s fisheries are central to America’s seafood industry. They set the market, support thousands of jobs for fishermen, boat captains, crew members, and technicians, and generate...

A NEW ERA OF U.S.-JAPAN TRADE RELATIONS: Earlier this month, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order implementing the framework agreement between the United States and Japan that he announced on July 22, 2025.

Fact Sheet on President Donald J. Trump Implements A Historic U.S.-Japan Framework Agreement

Today, the Department of Commerce announced that it will begin posting real gross domestic product (GDP) data on the blockchain beginning with the July 2025 data. GDP increased at an annual rate of 3.3 percent in July 2025 according to the revised estimates released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. This is the first time a federal agency has published economic statistical data like this on...