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Katherine Dautrich - Breaking News Editor, CNN Politics

Katherine Dautrich

Breaking News Editor, CNN Politics

Katherine Dautrich is a breaking news editor covering politics

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Howard Lutnick, chairman and chief executive officer of Cantor Fitzgerald LP, during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, US, on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Lutnick expects the Federal Reserve to cut rates a single time this year, just ahead of the US presidential election. Photographer: Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Trump’s Commerce secretary pick is a crypto booster with ties to one of the industry’s most controversial players

Trump’s Commerce secretary pick backed a crypto company that can’t seem to stay out of trouble

President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk at a viewing of a launch of SpaceX's Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas on Tuesday.

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How much of Musk’s wealth comes from tax dollars and government help?

Elon Musk is the world’s richest person partly due to his companies’ impressive innovations. But his wealth is also due to government contracts and programs that affected his two main businesses – electric vehicles and space travel.

Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" hangs on display during an auction preview at Sotheby's in New York on November 11.

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How are the wealthy feeling about Trump? The art market this week might hold a clue

A banana duct-taped to a wall first sold in 2019 for $120,000. It could fetch up to $1.5 million this week during a Sotheby’s auction.

President-elect Donald Trump at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on November 4.

The $50 trillion guardrail on Trump

Donald Trump is returning to the White House without many of the guardrails of his first term.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson walks to his office in the US Capitol Building on September 25 in Washington, DC.

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House GOP leadership announces new rules package raising motion to vacate threshold

House Republicans announced Wednesday night an agreement to raise the threshold to invoke a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair, in exchange for amendment changes.

Bob Casey, left, and Dave McCormick.

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Senate race in Pennsylvania heads to a recount

The incredibly tight Pennsylvania race between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger Dave McCormick will head to a recount, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt announced Wednesday.

Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde speaks at his election night party in Madison on November 6, 2024.

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Wisconsin Republican acknowledges defeat in Senate race, but questions result and mulls recount

Eric Hovde, the Wisconsin Republican who nearly unseated Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, acknowledged this week that he lost the election but also raised questions about the legitimacy of the result as he mulls requesting a recount.

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House Foreign Affairs Chair McCaul detained at airport after appearing intoxicated

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul was detained at Dulles Airport earlier this month when he appeared intoxicated after the congressman said he had consumed the sleep aid Ambien and alcohol.

FILE - Then Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference on July 27, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

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A Trump bitcoin promise is what crypto fans once fought against. They love it anyway

The crypto industry, an institution founded on the principle of getting the government’s greedy hands off the people’s currency, is booming. The reason? They may have finally convinced the government to get its hands on bitcoin.

Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe testifies before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic April 18, 2023, in Washington, DC.

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Trump chooses John Ratcliffe to serve as his CIA director

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has chosen John Ratcliffe to serve as his CIA director.

William J. McGinley speaks at an event hosted by BNA on new lobbying laws on November 13, 2007.

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Trump picks Bill McGinley to serve as his White House counsel

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that veteran Republican lawyer Bill McGinley will serve as his White House counsel.

The FTC under Lina Khan has blocked dozens of corporate tie-ups over concerns that consolidation undermines competition, making it easier for companies to jack up prices and exploit workers.

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A dealmaking frenzy is on the horizon as Biden’s top trustbuster faces the end of her tenure

Lina Khan’s days at the helm of the Federal Trade Commission, where she has overseen billions of dollars worth of scuttled corporate tie-ups — and become a political lightning rod — are numbered. And Wall Street is salivating.

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage for his election night rally at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024.

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In Trump’s second term, czars will reign

Less than a week into the Trump transition – with some of the most critical personnel decisions still underway – the president-elect has elevated a new class of candidates: the czars.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz is seen outside the US Capitol on July 25.

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Rep. Jared Moskowitz says authorities investigating potential plot against his life after arrest of armed man

Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz said Friday that local police in his Florida district notified him about a “potential plot” against his life and told him that an armed man had been arrested not far from his home.

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Trump could pick government’s top ethics official – after key ally blocked Biden’s choice

President-elect Donald Trump could be in a position to select the government’s top ethics czar when he assumes office in January – after a key ally in the Senate blocked President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Office of Government Ethics.

President Biden is announcing new changes to keep families together who have DACA Dreamer spouses seeking to change their immigration status, in Washington on Jun 19, 2024.

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Federal judge strikes down Biden immigration policy shielding select undocumented spouses of US citizens from deportation

A federal judge on Thursday struck down the Biden administration’s “parole in place” policy that gave legal status to certain undocumented individuals who are married to US citizens.

Katherine Dautrich is a breaking news editor covering politics and is based in CNN’s Washington, DC, bureau. She previously served as senior researcher at CNN’s editorial oversight team in Atlanta and reported on Texas’ 6-week abortion ban with the network’s investigative unit.

Dautrich got her start in journalism researching cold cases from the civil rights era for WABE’s “Buried Truths” podcast, which won a national Edward R. Murrow Award.

She is a native of Wayne, Pennsylvania, and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory University in Atlanta.