Politics

By Alayna Treene, Rene Marsh and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of employees at the Education Department were placed on paid administrative leave Friday as part of the Trump administration’s larger effort to rid the federal workforce of employees associated with diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility efforts, two sources familiar with the move told

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

By Jennifer Hansler, Alex Marquardt and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk said President Donald Trump agreed the US Agency for International Development needs to be “shut down,” following days of speculation over the future of the agency after its funding was frozen and dozens of its employees were put on leave. “With regards

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 costs.

CNN Analysis by Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump is on the verge of hitting America’s three biggest trading partners with sweeping tariffs, a far more aggressive use of his favorite economic weapon than anything he did during his first term. The looming import taxes on Mexico, Canada and China will

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump has quickly mobilized wide swaths of the federal government to arrest and detain undocumented immigrants in the United States, part of a broader strategy to amass a large enforcement machine. The administration has sent troops to the US-Mexico border, utilized military aircraft to repatriate recent

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