A crucial player in President Trump's trade agenda will finally be allowed to get on the field. The U.S. Senate voted 72-27 on Monday evening to confirm billionaire Wilbur Ross as Trump's commerce secretary. The White House is expected to hold a swearing-in ceremony for the new commerce secretary on Tuesday prior to Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress. The commerce secretary nominee said countries that resort to "malicious" trading tactics should be "severely" punished. "If you add and subtract, we were a very large net creator of jobs" in the U.S., Ross said.

Source: CNN February 27, 2017 19:40 UTC