Adam Cancryn
@adamcancryn
White House reporter at CNN. Ex-POLITICO. I write about the politics, policy and people shaping Trump’s agenda and admin. Message me on Signal: cancryn.01
Super excited to be joining CNN and its ultra-talented White House team! At a moment where rigorous, fair and ambitious reporting on our politics is more critical than ever, there’s no better place to do it than at CNN. I’m absolutely thrilled, and can’t wait to get started.
Adam Cancryn has joined CNN as a White House Reporter. Welcome to CNN, @adamcancryn! bit.ly/4luRNAX
“I told the president, I really do believe it could be his Obamacare,” Sen. Thom Tillis tells @jaketapper about the sweeping tax and spending cuts package that President Trump signed into law last week. “I think it’s politically just devastating.” cnn.com/2025/07/09/pol…
RFK Jr. says the AI revolution has arrived at the health department. But behind the scenes, its first major project — FDA's Elsa — is hallucinating research and raising reliability concerns, FDA staff tell @CNN More from me: cnn.com/2025/07/23/pol…
CNN's @owermohle has a new report out today detailing how FDA's new Elsa AI tool is quite unrealiable, undercutting claims about how it will be used to make FDA more efficient: cnn.com/2025/07/23/pol…
New from DOJ this morning on EPSTEIN: "At the direction of Attorney General Bondi, I have communicated with counsel for Ms. Maxwell to determine whether she would be willing to speak with prosecutors from the Department. I anticipate meeting with Ms. Maxwell in the coming days"
Statement from @DAGToddBlanche: This Department of Justice does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, nor from the responsibility to pursue justice wherever the facts may lead. The joint statement by the DOJ and FBI of July 6 remains as accurate today as it was when it was…
President Trump, in a new post on Truth Social, says the outrage over the Epstein files is “bullshit” and that supporters of his who bought into it “hook, line and sinker” haven’t “learned their lesson” on Democrats and he doesn’t want the “weaklings” support any more. "I have…
Trump hasn’t ruled out funneling longer-range missiles to Ukraine @Kevinliptakcnn @kylieatwood @KristenhCNN & me cnn.com/2025/07/15/pol…
Reporting from the CNN team here: cnn.com/2025/07/11/pol…
As Trump heads to Texas, he's avoided casting blame for the flood damage—a sharp contrast to his approach to past disasters in blue states like California. The WH rejects any suggestion of preferential treatment, but even allies say there's a difference: cnn.com/2025/07/10/pol…
As President Trump reiterates - twice - this AM he's not going to fire Fed Chair Jay Powell, my story this AM on why that remains the case as advisors escalate his pressure campaign on rates: cnn.com/2025/07/11/bus…
SCOOP: @VP Vance is traveling to West Pittston, Pennsylvania on Wednesday to tout Trump's "one big beautiful bill," where he will hold a rally-style event at a manufacturing facility: cnn.com/2025/07/10/pol…
Some news in this. Bass says she was talking to the White House regularly... until the immigrant raids. Now she's been on the outs/can't get in touch.
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass joins @samstein and @Lauren_V_Egan to discuss the ongoing ICE raids in Los Angeles, National Guard deployment, the impact on local communities and businesses, and how L.A. is responding to what she calls a dangerous federal overreach: thebulwark.com/p/mayor-bass-s…
Per WH official, Trump's trip to Texas to survey the flood damage tmrw will include: —Meets with first responders —Meets with families affected by the disaster —A briefing w/ local elected officials Gov. Abbott and Ted Cruz among those expected on hand cnn.com/2025/07/10/pol…
New: SecDef Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, 5 sources tell @NatashaBertrand & me, setting off a scramble inside the administration to understand why the halt was implemented. cnn.com/2025/07/08/pol…