WASHINGTON—U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Thursday the Biden administration will take further action against Chinese telecoms firm Huawei if necessary, after some Republican lawmakers pressed for more steps. Washington says Huawei is a national security threat on a variety of grounds and aggressively lobbied other countries not to use Huawei equipment in next-generation 5G networks. Citing Huawei’s ties to the Chinese regime and military, Washington says this makes the company susceptible to “Chinese governmental pressure to participate in espionage.” In a Reuters interview, Raimondo was asked about Huawei and she recounted how she told Republican lawmakers in January “that I wouldn’t be soft and now the proof’s in the pudding—we haven’t been. They shouldn’t worry.” Former President Donald Trump’s administration added Huawei to the U.S. Entity List in May 2019. Raimondo said the list “is a really powerful tool in our toolbox, and we will use it to …