Politics

By Morgan Rimmer, Veronica Stracqualursi and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a House-passed spending bill that exposed deep rifts within the Democratic Party. The stopgap measure to fund the government into the fall now heads to the desk of

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — As it pushes to implement a plan to end birthright citizenship, the Trump administration is counting on an argument about out-of-control federal judges to prove irresistible to some Supreme Court conservatives. Rather than waiting to ask the court to rule directly on the merits of birthright citizenship, which President

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The US Justice Department is investigating whether individuals involved in the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University last year violated federal anti-terrorism laws, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Friday. The DOJ is looking into “whether Columbia’s handling of earlier instances violated civil rights laws that included terrorism crimes,” Blanche

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump keeps telling a story about how he sent fire-plagued Los Angeles the critical water he says California’s leaders foolishly refused to provide. But the story, which Trump delivered in an especially colorful form at the White House on Thursday, is not true. The 2 billion-plus

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, may have “significantly underpaid his Social Security and Medicare taxes” in recent years, according to a memo prepared by Democratic staff on the Senate Finance Committee and obtained by CNN. A

By Haley Britzky, Priscilla Alvarez and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s high-profile effort to transfer migrants from the United States to the Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is being buffeted by concerns inside and outside his administration over living conditions there and the arduous, expensive process of making it a suitable

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN (CNN) — Alan Simpson, a longtime Republican senator from Wyoming who championed bipartisan solutions and steadfastly advocated for a moderate blend of conservatism, has died. He was 93. Simpson died early Friday after struggling to recover from a broken hip in December, according to a statement from his family and the

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump assailed the “weaponization” of the justice system during a speech Friday inside the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the storied building from which the government pursued criminal investigations and prosecutions against him. Flanked by staunch allies he tapped to run the organizations he says

By Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — Americans are skeptical that President Donald Trump’s approach to the war between Russia and Ukraine will bring peace to the region, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Most Americans view Trump’s handling of the conflict negatively, and 50% say his approach to the war is bad

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A second federal judge ruled Thursday that thousands of probationary employees laid off en masse by the Trump administration must be temporarily reinstated to their jobs. The new temporary restraining order from Senior Judge James Bredar, an Obama-appointee, covers 18 agencies and will last two weeks, as a challenge

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that she plans to mobilize her massive base of followers to oppose what she described as an “acquiesce” by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to accept the House GOP funding bill. “I think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal,”

CNN By Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top Senate Democrat to lead them into their first big battle against President Donald Trump — and instead have been left fuming. Schumer’s declaration Thursday night that he

By Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top Senate Democrat to lead them into their first big battle against President Donald Trump — and instead have been left fuming. Schumer’s declaration Thursday night that he would

CNN, POOL, HOUSE TV, SENATE TV, CAMIPHOTO.COM By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Facing intense pressure over the threat of a shutdown in less than two days, lawmakers are racing to push through a government funding plan by Friday’s midnight deadline. Lawmakers last passed a stopgap funding bill in December, averting a shutdown at the

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Johns Hopkins University announced Thursday that it will be cutting more than 2,000 jobs after it lost $800 million in funding from the US Agency for International Development amid the Trump administration’s effort to significantly downsize the federal government. The bulk of the layoffs at the top research university

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Facing intense pressure over the threat of a shutdown in less than two days, lawmakers are racing to push through a government funding plan by Friday’s midnight deadline. Lawmakers last passed a stopgap funding bill in December, averting a shutdown at the time. That measure, signed by then-President Joe

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has signed an agreement with the Department of Government Efficiency and the General Services Administration to work with the US Postal Service In a letter DeJoy sent to Congress on Thursday, he said DOGE teams will “assist us in identifying and achieving further efficiencies,”

By Zachary Cohen and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has formally asked Pentagon officials for “credible military options” to ensure unfettered American access to the Panama Canal, one of several new directives outlined in what amounts to a major overhaul of US strategic priorities, according to a new memo that was sent

By Eric Bradner, Sunlen Serfaty, Tami Luhby and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Widespread confusion and fear rippled through the federal workforce Thursday as federal agencies faced a key deadline in President Donald Trump’s push to drastically downsize the government. Thursday is the deadline for agencies to hand their cost-cutting proposals in to the White