Politics

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Five former leaders of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) from across Republican and Democratic administrations spoke out against the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the humanitarian agency and called on “Congress to swiftly protect the Agency’s statutory role.” In a Wednesday statement obtained first by CNN, the

By Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris, CNN Washington (CNN) — A month into the new Congress, House and Senate Republicans are still not on the same page on how to tackle President Donald Trump’s agenda raising the possibility the two chambers could be on a collision course that imperils Trump’s domestic priorities in the first

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Before signing an executive order Wednesday to try to ban transgender women from competing in women’s sports in schools and other settings, President Donald Trump repeated a lie he told last year. He asserted that two Olympians who won gold in women’s boxing events in 2024 were men

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Senate Democrats have started what they’re promising will be an overnight marathon of speeches to protest Russell Vought’s nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Vought is expected to be confirmed in a vote Thursday evening. Republicans control 53 seats in the chamber compared to 47

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has revoked the security detail assigned to his former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, a person familiar with the matter confirmed Wednesday, adding to the growing list of officials who have faced retribution from their onetime boss. Esper is one of several top aides who continued to

By Kevin Liptak, Alayna Treene and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Trump administration officials are hurrying to catch up to the president’s audacious and improbable plan for the United States to take ownership of Gaza and redevelop it into a “Middle Eastern Riviera,” trying to wrap their heads around an idea that some hope might

CNN By Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The acting deputy attorney general accused FBI leadership of “insubordination” by refusing to identify a “core team” of bureau employees who worked on January 6 investigations, while trying to assure that rank-and-file agents who “simply followed orders” will not be fired unless they “acted with

By Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The acting deputy attorney general accused FBI leadership of “insubordination” by refusing to identify a “core team” of bureau employees who worked on January 6 investigations, while trying to assure that rank-and-file agents who “simply followed orders” will not be fired unless they “acted with corrupt

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump ran his presidential campaign promising to abolish entire federal agencies and departments, but it’s not quite so easy for a president to simply end an organization that was created and funded each year by Congress, which is supposed to be the president’s equal. So the

By Devan Cole, CNN Greenbelt, Maryland (CNN) — A second federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, saying it’s likely unconstitutional and “runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth.” The nationwide preliminary injunction from US District Judge Deborah Boardman is a significant

By Betsy Klein and Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump took executive action Wednesday to deliver on a political issue central to his 2024 campaign: banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports. Trump signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” at an afternoon signing ceremony in the East

CNN By Katie Bo Lillis and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink the federal

CNN By John King, CNN Lincoln, Nebraska (CNN) — Sleep is hard to come by because of constant fear and uncertainty. But, she says, it is better than the alternative: “If I go back to Honduras, they will kill me.” Week three of the new Trump term is week three of G’s insomnia. Her lawyers

By John King, CNN Lincoln, Nebraska (CNN) — Sleep is hard to come by because of constant fear and uncertainty. But, she says, it is better than the alternative: “If I go back to Honduras, they will kill me.” Week three of the new Trump term is week three of G’s insomnia. Her lawyers tell

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio, newly in charge of the besieged US Agency for International Development, was for years a staunch supporter of its mission while in the US Senate, reversing his views only recently as President Donald Trump and his allies have moved to dismantle

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi is expected to order a review of the cases brought against President Donald Trump, including those undertaken by prosecutors in New York who successfully defeated him in court. Sworn in at the White House on Wednesday, Bondi intends to issue

By Jeremy Herb, Manu Raju, Lauren Fox, Alayna Treene and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Todd Young didn’t back Donald Trump in 2024. But that didn’t stop Young from calling the president this past weekend as he was wavering over Trump’s pick for the country’s top intelligence official, Tulsi Gabbard. Trump told Young to

By Katie Bo Lillis and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink the federal government