Sarah Owermohle
@owermohle
It's Over-mall. @CNN reporter focused on health policy and politics in Washington DC. Signal: sarah_owermohle.07
For my first investigation back at CNN, we spoke with men detained at Alligator Alcatraz. They described relentless mosquitoes, open toilets, and lights kept on 24/7. Using a site map & social media, we created a 3D rendering so you can see the inside for yourself:
Deportation flights from the makeshift South Florida migrant detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” have begun, Gov. DeSantis said Friday. We built a 3D model of the site to take you inside the facility—and spoke with detainees who are there: cnn.com/2025/07/25/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…
EXCLUSIVE: Sarepta Therapeutics’ $SRPT Duchenne therapy faces ‘arduous’ path back to market, senior FDA official says statnews.com/2025/07/22/fda… via @Jasonmmast and me.
New details: The dismissals of two top RFK aides followed internal clashes, w/ Flick first pushing to fire Anderson. But that ouster wasn't carried out properly (including surprising the WH). That angered RFK, prompting him to fire Flick. w/ @owermohle: cnn.com/2025/07/16/hea…
The GOP has a Thom Tillis problem. And a Josh Hawley problem. And a Don Bacon problem. Their Medicaid comments are about to be the center of Dem midterm strategy. HMP tells us: “We will use their own words against them in our ads” W/ @DavidWright_7 cnn.com/2025/07/04/pol…
Inside WH sales pitch to R mods: Dr Oz educated on provider tax changes, rural hospital $. Trump and Vance helped encourage folks to yes. POTUS tone was "cordial," per member. "People are moving to yes" - Dusty Johnson w/ @owermohle & Co More here cnn.com/2025/07/02/pol…
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
NIH is halting further grant terminations — we aren't sure why but it comes days after a federal judge ruled many such terminations were illegal and hours after said judge denied the government's appeal to stay the decision statnews.com/2025/06/25/nih…
Sen. Hawley says multiple senators said at GOP meeting just now says they “will not vote on the motion to proceed unless we get clarity, further clarity, on the rural hospital issue and what we're doing here.” Says bill may not currently have 50 votes to get on the floor…
Now @SenWarren is questioning the ACIP panel's conflict of interests in a letter shared w/ CNN. Letter was sent as House committee grills @SecKennedy on ACIP's shakeup and proposed budget cuts: cnn.com/2025/06/24/hea…
From Cassidy’s floor speech before voting for RFK Jr: “Mr. Kennedy and the administration committed that he and I will have an unprecedently close collaborative working relationship if he is confirmed. We will meet or speak multiple times a month.”
Although the appointees to ACIP have scientific credentials, many do not have significant experience studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology. In particular, some lack experience studying new technologies such as mRNA vaccines, and may even have a preconceived bias…
UnitedHealth Group mistakenly sent us confidential talking points that were prepared for the company's shareholder meeting this week. Casey Ross, @TaraBannow, and I wrote about the document and how executives prepared to assuage investors. statnews.com/2025/06/04/uni…
“Trump administration officials delayed and redacted a government forecast because it predicts an increase in the nation’s trade deficit in farm goods later this year” Great @Marcia_Brown9 scoop on fresh meddling with nonpartisan govt reports: politico.com/news/2025/06/0…
“What this is really about is producing budget savings. This is not savings through improved efficiency, or more people going to work. It’s savings by kicking people out of the program who are mostly eligible.” nytimes.com/2025/05/22/ups…
The @HHS budget hearings so far today: - Kennedy defends funding cuts & layoffs - Says Americans shouldn't take advice from him on vaccines - Says about DEI cuts that Trump is committed to a "colorblind" administration cnn.com/2025/05/14/hea…
NJ's @RepBonnie asks RFK Jr. about 100s of cancelled NIH grants that include words like Black, race, bias, disparity & minority. Two grants to study maternal mortality - with known racial disparities - were cut. One was toMorehouse School of Medicine: cnn.com/2025/05/08/pol…
