Politics

By Samantha Waldenberg, Kevin Liptak, Alayna Treene and David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced extraordinary new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China — signing the long-promised economic policy at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday. The Trump administration said tariffs are aimed at curbing the flow of drugs and undocumented immigrants into the

By Alayna Treene and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s allies, including Vice President JD Vance, are making calls to shore up support for both Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard following their confirmation hearings this week, two sources familiar with the situation told CNN. Kennedy, Trump’s nominee to lead the Department

By Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — In the wake of the worst American air disaster in two decades, the understaffed and cash-strapped National Transportation Safety Board was scrambling to keep investigators from leaving after federal employees received an offer by the Trump administration to resign and be paid through September. An internal NTSB memo informed

By Daniel Dale and Danya Gainor, CNN Washington (CNN) — Over and over at a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Democratic senators confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about controversial comments they said he had made in the past. And over and over, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services either denied having

By David Wright and Alex Leeds-Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk spent a total of more than $290 million on the 2024 election, new federal filings show, boosting President Donald Trump and Republicans in a staggering effort that has helped to secure unprecedented access for the world’s richest person in the new administration. The year-end

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is preparing to revoke legal status for many migrants who entered the United States under a Biden-era program, according to a source familiar with the planning, expanding the pool of people who could be deported. The move is expected to affect migrants from Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela,

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Ken Martin, the head of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, was decisively elected chair of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday, beating a crowded field in the first round of voting to become the new face of a party struggling to find its footing during the second Trump administration. Martin,

By Jennifer Hansler and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives in Panama Saturday for his first trip as the United States’ top diplomat that that will test if his diplomacy can build on President Donald Trump’s bellicose and transactional approach to “American First” foreign policy, particularly on migration. Rubio’s

By Tami Luhby, Eric Bradner and Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s offer to most federal employees to resign now and be paid through September stunned the workers who received it – angering some, confusing many and raising questions about whether the offer is even legal. When a US Department of Agriculture staffer

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — On Friday afternoon, around the same time a delegation of senior Canadian officials was preparing to meet with President Donald’s Trump’s border czar in a bid to stave off withering new tariffs, Trump himself essentially told them from afar: Don’t bother. “No,” he said when asked by a reporter

CNN By Evan Perez, Josh Campbell and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, demanding the names of those who worked on January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations for potential removal – a move that could affect thousands. Leaders of

By Katelyn Polantz, Phil Mattingly and Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — A few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his transition team went to the Treasury Department to talk about the handover of power. But what is normally a routine discussion turned into an alarming series of interactions for

By Jennifer Hansler, Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen, Sam Simpson and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Multiple US government agencies have ordered employees “to remove gender identifying pronouns from email signature blocks by 5:00 PM” on Friday, according to internal emails seen by CNN. Directives were sent out to employees at agencies including the State

CNN By Kevin Liptak and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — A day after signing steep new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, President Donald Trump acknowledged what economists, members of Congress and even some of his own aides — in their previous lives — have been saying all along: Americans may find themselves paying the

CNN By Kevin Liptak and David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump will move forward with aggressive new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on Saturday, the White House said, affirming he will stick to his February 1 deadline for the new duties that could have widespread effects on the economy. “I can confirm

By Evan Perez, Josh Campbell and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, demanding the names of those who worked on January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations for potential removal – a move that could affect thousands. Leaders of the

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Ella Nilsen, Alayna Treene and Rene Marsh, CNN Washington (CNN) — More than 1,100 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency received notice this week that they were deemed to be on probationary status and warning they could be fired immediately, according to an email obtained by CNN. Probationary employees receiving the email

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — No longer just campaign trail rhetoric, President Donald Trump’s insistence that immigration to the United States amounts to an “invasion” may be critical to unlocking extraordinary powers as the administration carries out his deportation agenda. Multiple executive orders and agency memos use the word “invasion” to describe why Trump