Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick took a shot at Canada, saying its response to Trump tariffs on steel and aluminum was “tone deaf.” On Wednesday, Canada imposed billions of dollars of reciprocal tariffs on the U.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick emphatically rejected the risks of a recession even as markets slide — and said America’s biggest trading partners could easily avoid Trump’s twice-delayed tariffs. Lutnick, 63, was asked if he was worried about the US sliding into recession Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” — and gave an unequivocal answer.