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By Annie Grayer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Congressional Republicans are publicly projecting that they’re in lockstep with the way President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are attempting to slash the federal workforce. But under the surface, some GOP lawmakers are growing concerned by the effort to usurp Congress’ control of the federal purse strings. And

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump made no attempt Tuesday to soften his proposal to relocate Palestinians in Gaza and redevelop the land into premium housing, even as his guest in the Oval Office, King Abdullah II of Jordan, suggested the Arab world was opposed. Trump repeated his view that Palestinians should

By Kasie Hunt, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Trump White House is demanding that government workers hunt for words like “immigrant” and “diversity” in billions of dollars worth of federal contracts with American companies to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing, raising concerns among staff that the contracts could modified or voided. On Friday night, workers at

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest bases, Fort Liberty, which replaced the namesake of a Confederate general in 2023. But in a memorandum signed Monday, Hegseth instructed the Army to rename the North Carolina military installation in

CNN By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was sent to prison on corruption charges surrounding his time in office. Signing the pardon in the Oval Office, Trump described Blagojevich as a “very fine person” and said it was time to “let him have

CNN By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others in the Trump administration are openly challenging the centuries-old power of the nation’s judiciary, foreshadowing a possible constitutional breakdown of American government. It’s not simply that the new administration has flouted a raft of federal statutes and

By Paula Reid and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Justice is moving to drop the federal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to a memo obtained by CNN. The memo, which was sent by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, instructed the acting United States attorney for the

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was sent to prison on corruption charges surrounding his time in office. Signing the pardon in the Oval Office, Trump described Blagojevich as a “very fine person” and said it was time to “let him have a

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Chris Isidore and David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday imposed a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States with no exceptions or exemptions. Although the United States gets most of its steel from Canada, Brazil and Mexico, the tariffs are largely — albeit

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Monday he is naming Ric Grenell, a longtime confidant already serving in multiple administration positions, to lead the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on a temporary basis after declaring himself the institution’s chairman late last week. “I am pleased to announce that Ric Grenell

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Paula Reid and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — On January 6, 2021, Emil Bove sat in lower Manhattan, watching on television as a pro-Trump mob invaded the US Capitol, violently attacking police and temporarily causing Congress to suspend its certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory. Bove at the time

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others in the Trump administration are openly challenging the centuries-old power of the nation’s judiciary, foreshadowing a possible constitutional breakdown of American government. It’s not simply that the new administration has flouted a raft of federal statutes and prompted

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump removed the head of the Office of Government Ethics from his post, the agency said Monday – the latest example of Trump acting against a government watchdog. The agency’s director, David Huitema, was confirmed to the post by the Senate in November and officially began the

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and its sweeping freeze on foreign assistance has made it more difficult to track potential misuse of US taxpayer-funded humanitarian assistance, meaning it could end up unintentionally going to terrorist groups, according to a new report from

By Devan Cole and Tami Luhby, CNN Boston (CNN) — A federal judge has for now extended a pause on the deadline set by the Trump administration for federal workers to accept a deferred resignation offer and temporarily prohibited the government from soliciting more so-called buyouts. The temporary restraining order announced from the bench Monday

By Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris, CNN Washington (CNN) — As GOP hardliners spent the weekend pushing party leaders to cut deeper into Medicaid in an effort to advance Donald Trump’s tax and border agenda, swing-district Republicans have been warning the president directly that it would cost him control of the House. “There are people

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans may no longer be pushing to wholly repeal Obamacare, but big cuts to the nation’s health system are still on the table. As GOP leaders in the House and Senate scramble to pull together a massive legislative package with Trump’s pricey priorities, they

By Kevin Liptak and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday urged Israel to cancel its ceasefire deal with Hamas and “let all hell break out” if Hamas does not return hostages still being held in Gaza by noon on Saturday. Earlier Monday, Hamas threatened to postpone the next hostage release scheduled

CNN By Avery Schmitz, Katie Bo Lillis, Priscilla Alvarez and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US military has significantly increased its surveillance of Mexican drug cartels over the past two weeks, with sophisticated spy planes flying at least 18 missions over the southwestern US and in international airspace around the Baja peninsula, according to

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — President Donald Trump named three justices in his first term, establishing a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court. And now, even without an imminent vacancy, Trump is positioned to push the court farther to the right. He has begun turning the top appellate litigator at the

By Avery Schmitz, Katie Bo Lillis, Priscilla Alvarez and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US military has significantly increased its surveillance of Mexican drug cartels over the past two weeks, with sophisticated spy planes flying at least 18 missions over the southwestern US and in international airspace around the Baja peninsula, according to open-source

By Jeff Zeleny, Alayna Treene and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — Nearly every day since President Donald Trump entered office three weeks ago, he has convened a huddle in the West Wing with two of his senior-most aides to plot out the next steps dramatically reshaping the federal government. One is his chief of

By Betsy Klein and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his plans for the US to redevelop Gaza, saying that he viewed the war-torn enclave as a “big real estate site.” “I think that it’s a big mistake to allow people — the Palestinians, or the people living

By Aileen Graef and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday acknowledged that Elon Musk’s government efficiency team, which has been tasked with slashing federal spending, has access to her agency’s data, including that of federal disaster aid recipients’ personal information, as part of an “audit” she welcomes. Appearing on

CNN By Aileen Graef and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday acknowledged that Elon Musk’s government efficiency team, which has been tasked with slashing federal spending, has access to her agency’s data, including that of federal disaster aid recipients’ personal information, as part of an “audit” she welcomes. Appearing

CNN By Aileen Graef and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday acknowledged that Elon Musk’s government efficiency team, which has been tasked with slashing federal spending, has access to her agency’s data, including that of federal disaster aid recipients’ personal information, as part of an “audit” she welcomes. Appearing

CNN By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Democrats have been powerless as they’ve watched President Donald Trump systematically move to dismantle federal agencies and push the bounds of his office with little concern about the fallout. But they do have one looming piece of leverage: the March 14 deadline

By Betsy Klein, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — Nearly three weeks into Donald Trump’s second term in office, the president is continuing to dramatically reimagine and expand his use of executive authority — and to use that authority to carry out retribution against his perceived political enemies. The president spent his first days

By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Democrats have been powerless as they’ve watched President Donald Trump systematically move to dismantle federal agencies and push the bounds of his office with little concern about the fallout. But they do have one looming piece of leverage: the March 14 deadline to

By Betsy Klein and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced in an interview published Saturday that he has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He wants to see people stop dying,” Trump told the New York Post. It was not immediately clear when the leaders spoke or if they had spoken since

By Whitney Wild, Jamie Gangel and Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — The United States Secret Service tapped blockbuster movie director Michael Bay to create a recruiting advertisement that is expected to be unveiled in the stadium on Super Bowl Sunday, according to multiple NFL and Secret Service sources. The ad cost an estimated $2 million

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge, citing a risk of “irreparable harm,” has temporarily restricted Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing a critical Treasury Department payment system. The judge’s order, issued early Saturday, temporarily halts access to a sensitive payment system that distributes Americans’ tax returns, Social Security benefits, disability payments

CNN By Betsy Klein and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is eagerly dismantling an agency that was once championed by his daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka Trump. The work of the US Agency for International Development was important enough to the president that during his 2019 State of the Union address, he

By Betsy Klein and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is eagerly dismantling an agency that was once championed by his daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka Trump. The work of the US Agency for International Development was important enough to the president that during his 2019 State of the Union address, he unveiled

By Donald Judd, Betsy Klein and Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration announced it had dismissed Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan in a surprise move Friday evening. “At the direction of @realDonaldTrump the Archivist of the United States has been dismissed tonight,” White House Director of Presidential Personnel Sergio Gor

By Alejandra Jaramillo and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday said he was removing former President Joe Biden’s access to classified information by revoking his security clearance and stopping his daily intelligence briefings. “There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information, Trump said in a

By Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The State Department on Friday announced a $7 billion arms sale to Israel, circumventing the congressional review process, according to Rep. Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The announcement, which includes thousands of Hellfire missiles and bombs, comes days after Israeli

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced an aggressive plan Friday evening to gut the existing board of trustees at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and oust its chairman, billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein, a remarkable move aimed at remaking the nation’s cultural center. Trump said he would be appointing himself

CNN By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge, citing a risk of “irreparable harm,” has temporarily restricted Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing a critical Treasury Department payment system. The judge’s order, issued early Saturday, temporarily halts access to a sensitive payment system that distributes Americans’ tax returns, Social Security benefits, disability

CNN By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Proud Boys lost control of their trademarked name on Monday after a judge in Washington, DC, ruled that it be handed over to a Black church that was attacked by members of the far-right group four years ago. The decision from Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier is

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration is switching positions in a major Supreme Court case on transgender rights, backing away from the Biden administration’s opposition to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The appeal over Tennessee’s ban is the most significant LGBTQ+ case the Supreme Court has considered in years.

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — FBI employees and the Justice Department agreed to a court order Friday that bars the DOJ from releasing a list of FBI employees who worked on January 6 cases – including the one against Donald Trump – publicly, to the White House or to any other government agency without

By Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Curt Devine, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — One is a 23-year-old software engineer from Nebraska who helped decipher an ancient scroll buried for centuries. Another was the runner-up in a “hackathon” contest last year as a Harvard senior. A third is the CEO of a multibillion-dollar start-up.

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — In the first weeks of the new Trump administration, the White House has boasted about the arrests of thousands of undocumented immigrants. But behind the scenes, senior officials have expressed frustration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in tense calls for not meeting its marks, according to multiple sources

By Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — What access Elon Musk has to closely guarded government data – including sensitive information it has collected about and from the American public — is a key battlefront in the quickly moving legal war over how President Donald Trump has sought to drastically transform

By Jeremy Herb, Rene Marsh, Tami Luhby and Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — In less than three weeks, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have upended the federal workforce, firing top officials, grinding billion-dollar agencies to a halt and convincing tens of thousands of workers to voluntarily leave their jobs. And they say they’re

By Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The FBI has provided the Justice Department with names of employees who worked on January 6-related cases after a new demand from the acting deputy attorney general, capping a weeklong back-and-forth between bureau leadership – who had sought to protect agent and staff identities – and

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — FBI employees and the Justice Department agreed to a court order Friday that bars the DOJ from releasing a list of FBI employees who worked on January 6 cases – including the one against Donald Trump – publicly, to the White House or to any other government agency

By Jennifer Hansler and Jessica Hasbun, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio formally seized a second plane belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government on behalf of the United States on Thursday. The relationship between Caracas and Washington has been marked by tensions for decades and the plane’s seizure follows a similar

By Jennifer Hansler and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A pair of labor groups representing employees at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) sued President Donald Trump on Thursday over his efforts to dismantle the decades-old humanitarian agency, as multiple sources told CNN that fewer than 300 agency employees are expected to be retained

By Manu Raju, Sarah Ferris and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is vowing to power forward on a key budget committee vote early next week, setting up a clash with Senate GOP leaders who are itching to move a separate blueprint with their own strategy on how to pass President

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A US-contracted surveillance plane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday morning, killing all four personnel on board, including one US military service member, according to US Indo-Pacific Command. The crash occurred in Maguindanao del Sur in the southern Philippines. Images from the crash site, confirmed by a US defense

By Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi, in some of her first moves on the job, is shifting the Justice Department’s national security priorities away from initiatives that have been a source of irritation for President Donald Trump and his allies. Bondi is limiting criminal enforcement of a foreign agents registration law

CNN By Tami Luhby, Alayna Treene and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge paused Thursday’s deadline for federal employees to accept the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer while more proceedings on the program’s legality play out. The administration sent an email to employees just after 5 p.m. ET informing them of the court-ordered

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders Thursday, one targeting the International Criminal Court and a second on “anti-Christian bias.” The ICC action places financial and visa sanctions on “individuals and their family members who assist in ICC investigations of US citizens or our allies,” according to

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is seeking to overhaul and shrink the federal workforce. President Donald Trump has issued multiple executive actions that affect federal workers, including directing agencies to begin preparations for major reductions in force, requiring staffers to return to the office full time and making it easier to

By Devan Cole and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration sued officials in Illinois, Chicago, and Cook County on Thursday over policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement authorities, accusing them of obstructing its immigration crackdown. It’s the first major challenge from the administration against Democratic-led cities and states that have opposed

CNN By Joan Biskupic and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has spent recent days alongside several Trump administration Cabinet officials – making them official. In the process, he and his wife, Ginni, have drawn exceptional attention from President Donald Trump himself. On Wednesday morning, Thomas swore in Doug Collins to be

By Joan Biskupic and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has spent recent days alongside several Trump administration Cabinet officials – making them official. In the process, he and his wife, Ginni, have drawn exceptional attention from President Donald Trump himself. On Wednesday morning, Thomas swore in Doug Collins to be secretary

By Katelyn Polantz and Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system. The ask was so out of line with how

By Jennifer Hansler, Alex Marquardt and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s rapid moves to dismantle the US Agency for International Development have left thousands of workers scrambling to figure out what comes next and scores of those posted in dangerous hotspots around the world afraid for their safety. CNN spoke with numerous

By Eric Bradner, Tami Luhby, Katelyn Polantz and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s bid to remake the federal government is already affecting some vulnerable populations in the United States, according to nonprofits and health care providers who are grappling with delays in federal funding, new rules and changed guidance. A 19-year-old West

By Tami Luhby, Alayna Treene and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge paused Thursday’s deadline for federal employees to accept the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer while more proceedings on the program’s legality play out. The administration sent an email to employees just after 5 p.m. ET informing them of the court-ordered pause

By Rene Marsh and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Employees in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights have been told they are being placed on paid administrative leave as the agency executes the Trump administration’s executive order to wipe out all program offices it deems as tied to diversity,

By Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Two Treasury Department employees affiliated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency will keep limited access to the highly sensitive payment system within the agency, following emergency court proceedings Wednesday that arose out of privacy concerns about DOGE’s access to the system. The Trump administration agreed

By Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The CIA has sent the White House an unclassified email listing all new hires that have been with the agency for two years or less in an effort to comply with an executive order to downsize the federal workforce, according to three sources familiar with

By Arit John, Fredreka Schouten and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — After nearly three weeks in the minority, Democrats have finally settled on a target to rally against: Elon Musk. The party and allied groups this week have shown up at the doors of agencies impacted by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, held rallies and

By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — The Office of Personnel Management’s chief financial officer, who manages more than $1 trillion in funds, was pushed out this week, two sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN. Her departure is the latest in a series of top career officials who have been removed from their jobs

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

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

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender women currently housed in women’s facilities at federal prisons. Tuesday’s ruling from US District Judge Royce Lamberth represents another legal setback for a divisive executive order issued by President Donald Trump on

CNN By Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — The Treasury Department said Elon Musk aides detailed to the agency have “read-only” access to its sensitive $5 trillion US payments system and that no payments have been suspended or rejected as part of an ongoing review. The information, provided in a letter to lawmakers from a Treasury

By Shania Shelton and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Senate voted Tuesday night to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general, making the tenacious litigator the latest official to help fill out President Donald Trump’s administration. The vote was 54-46. The vote was mostly along party lines though Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania

By Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — The Treasury Department said Elon Musk aides detailed to the agency have “read-only” access to its sensitive $5 trillion US payments system and that no payments have been suspended or rejected as part of an ongoing review. The information, provided in a letter to lawmakers from a Treasury official,

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States “will take over” the Gaza Strip — possibly with the help of American troops — while the Palestinians who live there should leave, a stunning proposal that would dramatically reorient the Middle East and subject a population of more

By Alex Marquardt, Lauren Kent and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Agency for International Development staff around the world will be placed on administrative leave Friday and ordered to return to the US, according to a directive issued Tuesday night. As of 11:59 p.m. ET Friday, “all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Proud Boys lost control of their trademarked name on Monday after a judge in Washington, DC, ruled that it be handed over to a Black church that was attacked by members of the far-right group four years ago. The decision from Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier is meant

By Alayna Treene and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is planning widespread layoffs among the federal workforce soon, leaving employees who don’t accept its deferred resignation offer at risk of losing their jobs, two Trump administration officials told CNN. The layoffs, which are being referred to internally as sweeping “Reductions in Force,”

By Sarah Ferris, CNN Washington (CNN) — Conservative backlash has brought Speaker Mike Johnson’s budget plans to a halt, offering an early sign of the struggle Republicans will face as they try to muscle President Donald Trump’s agenda through a narrowly divided Congress. House GOP leaders are struggling to coalesce behind a budget blueprint that

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — On Monday, President Donald Trump put a month-long pause on his planned tariffs on Canadian imports. Earlier in the day, though, he added two new items to his long list of inaccurate complaints about Canada. In a post on social media and then in comments to reporters in

By Alayna Treene and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is expected to attend Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday, a White House official told CNN. The guest list is still being prepared, the official said, though House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana native, is in talks to

By Priscilla Alvarez, Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN Washington (CNN) — As tents went up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold migrants, attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon were still trying to determine whether it was legal to take the unprecedented step of flying migrants from the US southern border to