Katie Lobosco - Writer, CNN Politics
Katie Lobosco
Writer, CNN Politics
Katie Lobosco writes for CNN Politics, focusing on how economic policy decisions made in Washington affect people across the country.
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What the next Trump presidency could mean for US education
Nov 17, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has laid out some big changes for education in the US.
Trump wants to shut down the Department of Education. Here’s what that could mean
Nov 12, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to abolish the Department of Education. Here’s what the agency does and how eliminating it could play out.
Here’s what Trump is proposing for the economy
Nov 6, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump on the campaign trail laid out a broad array of ideas aimed at providing tax relief, cutting prices, hiking tariffs and strengthening the economy, which ranks at the top of voters’ concerns.
3 charts that help explain how Trump’s tariffs would work
Oct 29, 2024
If former President Donald Trump returns to the White House, tariffs will once again play a major role in his policy agenda.
Here’s what Harris and Trump are proposing for the economy
Oct 28, 2024
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have laid out a broad array of ideas aimed at making life more affordable and strengthening the economy, which rank at the top of voters’ concerns.
Federal appeals court could rule soon on Biden’s student loan repayment plan. Here’s what borrowers need to know
Oct 24, 2024
The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals could rule soon on a Republican-led lawsuit challenging President Joe Biden’s student loan repayment plan after hearing oral arguments Thursday.
How Harris took on the ‘big banks’ after the foreclosure crisis
Oct 21, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris often touts how she took on the “big banks” as attorney general of California to deliver mortgage relief to homeowners hit by the 2008 foreclosure crisis. The story has become central to the way Harris introduces herself to voters.
Biden has approved $175 billion in student loan forgiveness for nearly 5 million people
Oct 17, 2024
With less than three weeks before the November election, the Biden-Harris administration is reminding voters how it has delivered a historic amount of student debt relief even as Republicans have challenged several of its efforts in court and balked at the costs.
Trump wants to renegotiate his own trade deal with Mexico and Canada
Oct 14, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is once again pledging to save American manufacturing and bring back jobs by rewriting a trade agreement with Mexico and Canada.
How to apply for FEMA aid after Hurricanes Helene and Milton
Oct 12, 2024
The federal government provides a variety of assistance programs for people impacted by disasters like the two major hurricanes, Helene and Milton, that recently hit the Southeastern US.
Ignore social media. Here’s what Harris’ unrealized capital gains tax proposal means for you
Oct 6, 2024
A tax proposal embraced by Vice President Kamala Harris that’s meant to target the wealthy is getting attention in an unlikely place for wonky policy debate: social media.
A pandemic-era student loan benefit ends after Monday. Here’s what borrowers need to know
Sep 30, 2024
A one-year grace period for student loan borrowers who miss a payment is ending this week.
Harris says Trump doesn’t need to be the ‘protector’ of women, he has to trust them to make their own decisions
Sep 26, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that women don’t need Donald Trump to be their “protector,” but instead need the former president “to trust them” to make their own reproductive decisions.
Here’s how Trump says he’ll help US businesses through tariffs and taxes
Sep 24, 2024
Donald Trump portrays himself as a big friend of big business. Among his most notable efforts of his first administration was slashing the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% as part of his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which contained multiple other beneficial measures for companies.
Fewer low-income students applied for college financial aid after botched FAFSA rollout
Sep 24, 2024
Fewer low-income students applied for college financial aid for the current school year after the rollout of an updated version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, was plagued with problems.
About
Katie Lobosco writes for CNN Politics, focusing on how economic policy decisions made in Washington affect people across the country.
Previously, she covered consumer finance for CNN Business, including the impacts of the 2017 federal tax reform, the massive Equifax data breach, and how Americans are struggling to pay down their student debt.
Before joining CNN in 2013, Lobosco was a reporter for a local New Jersey newspaper, The Coast Star.
She’s a graduate of Gettysburg College and holds a master’s degree in business journalism from New York University.
