Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic ...

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday he would strip out government spending from the gross domestic product ...

That prompted Trump adviser Elon Musk to muse on Friday that a “more accurate measure of GDP would exclude government spending,” on X, the platform he owns. Over the weekend, Commerce ...

Government spending is tied up with consumer and business spending. Not reporting it as part of GDP would breach global accounting standards.

"They count government spending as part of GDP. So I'm going to separate those two and make it transparent." However, Lutnick did not provide a timeline for when this change might occur ...

“You know that governments historically have messed with GDP,” Lutnick said on Fox News Channel's “Sunday Morning Futures.” “They count government spending as part of GDP. So I’m going ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that government spending could be separated from gross domestic product reports, in response to questions about whether ...