Lauren Fox - CNN Congressional Correspondent
Lauren Fox
CNN Congressional Correspondent
Lauren Fox is a congressional correspondent for CNN.
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Trump is determined to see Gaetz confirmed as AG despite controversies
Nov 17, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump is pressing forward with his decision to put forward former Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general, despite widespread unease on Capitol Hill about entrusting the Justice Department to a figure with limited legal experience who has recently faced investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct.
Gaetz faces rocky road to confirmation as pressure builds for release of House ethics probe
Nov 15, 2024
Top Senate Republicans are withholding support for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general, while Democrats and at least one prominent GOP senator call for the release of an ethics report into the former congressman.
Trump looms large as Congress faces shutdown threat and ‘dizzying’ to-do list
Nov 12, 2024
Donald Trump won’t arrive back in the White House until January. But he’ll have fingerprints over every piece of the lame duck Congress.
Democrats will face headwinds in final push to confirm Biden judges
Nov 11, 2024
The first vote the lame-duck Senate will take as it returns Tuesday will be on a nominee for a Chicago federal court, kicking off Democrats’ uphill campaign to confirm as many of President Joe Biden’s picks for the judiciary as possible before losing power at the end of next month.
Hill Republicans ready ambitious agenda as they hope for full sweep of Washington
Nov 7, 2024
Republicans on Capitol Hill are laying the groundwork to push through an ambitious agenda with President-elect Donald Trump if they have total control of Washington next January – a rare GOP trifecta that party leaders believe is now within reach.
Battle to replace McConnell remains wide-open as top candidates quietly woo key senators — and Trump
Nov 4, 2024
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell’s potential successors have been crisscrossing the country, cozying up to former President Donald Trump and barnstorming key battleground states in the final days of the election to help their party win back the Senate — and help themselves, too.
White House works to Trump-proof Biden’s legacy ahead of tight election
Nov 1, 2024
On the day President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection, he convened his senior team at the White House, asking for a plan to “run through the tape” in his final six months in office, implementing key laws and cementing foreign policy, chief of staff Jeff Zients told political appointees on a call this summer.
Jordan hits campaign trail for House GOP as he looks to shed firebrand reputation
Oct 29, 2024
A lot has changed for Jim Jordan since he lost his speakership bid last October.
House Freedom Caucus chair suggests North Carolina Legislature could assign electors before votes are tallied
Oct 25, 2024
The chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus suggested that legislators in the battleground state of North Carolina could potentially allocate their state’s electoral votes to Donald Trump before votes are counted because of the possible disenfranchisement of voters in Western North Carolina, a plan which state election officials called illegal and Republicans have criticized.
Dan Osborn’s unorthodox campaign challenges GOP stronghold in Nebraska’s US Senate race
Oct 15, 2024
In Nebraska, a wild card candidate is shaking up the US Senate map for Republicans, who never expected to be defending a seat in a reliably red state.
Biden warns congressional leaders in new letter that some disaster funding will run out before election
Oct 5, 2024
In the wake of Hurricane Helene, which has devastated multiple states along the Eastern seaboard, President Joe Biden is urging lawmakers to replenish some critical disaster relief programs that have nearly run out of money.
Johnson defused a shutdown threat. The real GOP fight is still coming
Sep 30, 2024
Speaker Mike Johnson needed to convince former President Donald Trump that a shutdown could hurt their party on Election Day even as Trump was itching for a fight with Democrats over cracking down on non-citizens voting in elections.
Congress votes to avert shutdown, setting up chaotic funding fight in December
Sep 26, 2024
Congress set up a chaotic, high-stakes fight over spending at the end of the year, after both chambers voted on Wednesday to avert a government shutdown.
Speaker Johnson unveils short-term spending bill, urges members to avoid shutdown
Sep 22, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson laid out the next plans to avert a government shutdown in a Sunday letter to his members.
About
Lauren Fox is a congressional correspondent for CNN.
Prior to joining CNN’s congressional team, Fox covered politics for Talking Points Memo, National Journal and U.S. News and World Report in Washington, D.C. Throughout the years, Fox has reported Congress’s efforts to reform health care, immigration, gun policy and more. Her work has also appeared in Salon and the Atlantic.com.
Fox is a graduate of the University of Oregon where she majored in journalism. She also holds a Masters in creative nonfiction from Johns Hopkins University. After growing up in five different states, Fox now works and resides in Washington, D.C.
