Politics

By Rob Kuznia, Bob Ortega and Casey Tolan, CNN When the election office led by Lisa Deeley first came under attack from then-President Donald Trump last year, it was more than a month before Election Day. Deeley, the chair of Philadelphia’s three-member election commission and a Democrat, watched from home as Trump falsely claimed during

By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Rep. Ro Khanna had a suggestion for President Joe Biden on a private conference call earlier this week: Have Sens. Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders sit in the same room and try to cut a deal on the Democratic Party’s massive social safety net expansion. Because once they

By Tami Luhby, CNN The nation’s poverty rate rose to 11.4% last year, but the first two rounds of federal stimulus payments helped keep 11.7 million Americans out of poverty, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. The payments, a key part of the unprecedented federal response to the economic havoc wreaked by the coronavirus

By Tami Luhby, CNN The nation’s poverty rate rose to 11.4% last year, but the first two rounds of federal stimulus payments helped keep 11.7 million Americans out of poverty, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. The payments, a key part of the unprecedented federal response to the economic havoc wreaked by the coronavirus

By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN Democrats in Congress are pushing ahead with a sweeping multi-trillion-dollar 10-year spending plan that marks the latest step in their drive to expand education, health care and childcare support, tackle the climate crisis and make further investments in infrastructure. Thirteen House committees are crafting the legislation that will

By Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Most Republicans want former President Donald Trump to remain their party’s leader, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. But differing views about Trump’s role in the party — and his strength as a future presidential nominee — highlight divides within the GOP. Republicans and Republican-leaning

By Gregory Lemos and Devan Cole, CNN Arkansas’ Republican governor said Sunday that he thinks President Joe Biden’s newly announced Covid-19 vaccine mandate “hardens the resistance” some people have to getting one. “We have to overcome resistance,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson told NBC’s “Meet The Press.” “This is a very serious, deadly virus and we’re all

By Clare Foran and Manu Raju, CNN House and Senate Democratic leaders are scrambling to unite their party behind a massive economic package to implement much of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, but substantial disagreements remain and could threaten to derail the effort. Top Democrats have set a Wednesday deadline to finalize a deal and

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Saturday released the first of what is expected to be several documents related to its investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and suspected Saudi government support for the hijackers, following an executive order by President Joe Biden. The newly declassified document, which is

By Nicole Gaouette, Jake Tapper and Jessica Small, CNN US commanders who led the war in Afghanistan are wrestling with the country’s collapse to the Taliban, with some ruing the “pretty horrible mistakes” the US military made along the way and one of them flatly declaring America’s longest war was not worth the price. “The

By Nicole Gaouette, Jake Tapper and Jessica Small, CNN US commanders who led the war in Afghanistan are wrestling with the country’s collapse to the Taliban, with some ruing the “pretty horrible mistakes” the US military made along the way and one of them flatly declaring America’s longest war was not worth the price. “The

By Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Most Republicans want former President Donald Trump to remain their party’s leader, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. But differing views about Trump’s role in the party — and his strength as a future presidential nominee — highlight divides within the GOP. Republicans and Republican-leaning