Erin Doherty

1 week ago | cnbc.com | Erin Doherty

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are warning that President Donald Trump's tariff-heavy trade agenda is quickly starting to resemble a "corrupt scheme to enrich administration officials and those loyal to them."The Trump administration's tumultuous rollout of a spate of new tariffs is "rife with opportunities to unduly influence President Trump and other administration officials," they write in a letter shared first with CNBC on Thursday.

1 week ago | cnbc.com | Erin Doherty

A federal judge found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for ignoring his order barring the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members to a notorious El Salvador prison. "The Court ultimately determines that the Government's actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt," Judge James Boasberg wrote in a court opinion Wednesday.

1 week ago | cnbc.com | Erin Doherty

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised $9.6 million during the first quarter of 2025, the strongest ever quarter for the New York Democrat, a campaign finance filing showed Tuesday. AOC's huge money haul — more than five times her tally in the first quarter of 2024 — comes as she and Sen.

1 week ago | cnbc.com | Erin Doherty

Harvard University on Monday rejected demands by the Trump administration to eliminate its DEI programs and screening international students for ideological concerns, putting nearly $9 billion in federal funding for the university at risk.

1 week ago | cnbc.com | Erin Doherty

President Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested Sunday that the reciprocal tariff exemptions for some electronics may be short-lived, and said separate tariffs for these products are "coming soon.""They're exempt from the reciprocal tariffs, but they're included in the semiconductor tariffs, which are coming in probably a month or two," Lutnick said Sunday on ABC News' This Week.