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White House races to dole out funding from key legislation before Trump takes office

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — The White House is racing to dole out remaining funds appropriated from key legislation President Joe Biden signed before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in 10 weeks. That includes finalizing agreements between the Commerce Department and manufacturing companies for federal semiconductor subsidies; allocating grants for climate initiatives; and surging

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Inside Mar-a-Lago, the chaotic Trump epicenter: patio pitches, transition meetings and rogue guests

By Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Mar-a-Lago is the epicenter of Donald Trump’s presidential transition, and foreign leaders, contractors and those seeking a job in the administration have descended on Palm Beach, Florida, filling hotels and seeking rental properties for the next three months to get as much face time as possible with the president-elect

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Trump announces Tom Homan, his former acting ICE director, will be administration’s ‘border czar’

By Kaitlan Collins and Colin McCullough, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday night that Tom Homan, who served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in his last administration, will be in charge of the nation’s borders. “I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border

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Trump calls on GOP senators vying to be majority leader to agree to recess appointments

By Kate Sullivan, Manu Raju and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is demanding Republican senators vying to be majority leader support recess appointments for his nominees — a way for presidents to essentially bypass Congress that has recently been blocked by the minority party. All three senators running in this week’s secret-ballot

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We asked Americans what they’d heard about Trump and Harris throughout the campaign. Here’s what they told us

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Americans heard starkly different messages about Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in the final days of the 2024 election, according to The Breakthrough, a CNN polling project that tracked what average Americans actually heard, read and saw about the presidential nominees throughout the general election campaign. In the final

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