Tatiana was more than our daughter—she was our guiding star, shining brightest even in the darkest nights.Losing her has left a wound that will never fully heal! Kennedy Family, President Bi
Kennedy Family Arrives at Tatiana Schlossberg’s Ultra-Private N.Y.C. Funeral (Exclusive)
Schlossberg is being remembered at a service held at The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola in New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood
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- Tatiana Schlossberg’s family and friends are gathering in New York City on Jan. 5 for her funeral
- She is being honored at The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola in the city’s Upper East Side neighborhood
- Schlossberg died at age 35 on Dec. 30, one month after she publicly revealed her diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia in an essay published in The New Yorker
Funeral processions are beginning for Tatiana Schlossberg, the late daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg.
Family and friends are gathering at The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola on New York City’s Upper East Side on Monday, Jan. 5, to mourn following Tatiana’s death at age 35 on Dec. 30.
Extended family members, including Kerry Kennedy and Joe Kennedy III, were among the first to enter the church on Monday afternoon. Her immediate family, including her parents and siblings, Rose and Jack, arrived soon after, as well as her husband, George Moran, and their two young kids, son Edwin and daughter Josephine.
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Notable public figures, including late-night veteran David Letterman and Tatiana’s wedding dress designer Carolina Herrera, were also spotted filing into the church, which similarly hosted the 1994 funeral service for Tatiana’s grandmother Jackie Kennedy.
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The ceremony was kept private, and police blocked off the surrounding streets.
Tatiana died one month after she announced that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in an essay published by The New Yorker in November. David Remnick, the magazine’s editor, was also among the guests invited to her Monday funeral after praising the strength she displayed in writing about her cancer journey in a statement to PEOPLE days earlier.
The JFK Library Foundation announced the news of her death on Dec. 30 in a post on behalf of Schlossberg’s extended family, saying, “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts.” The post was signed by “George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.”
Tatiana, who was the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, is survived by her husband and their two children. She also leaves behind her older sister, Rose, and younger brother, Jack, along with her parents.
In her New Yorker essay, Tatiana detailed how she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia after the birth of her daughter in 2024.
“I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me,” she wrote. “I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew.”
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Kerry Kennedy Says Cousin Tatiana Schlossberg ‘Left Our World More Joyful, More Beautiful’ Following Her Death at 35
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Tatiana underwent months of medical treatment after her diagnosis, including chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant. While she detailed her treatment, she also criticized her cousin, Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for cutting funding for cancer research, among his many dramatic changes to the agency during his first year in the role.
“I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government,” she wrote.
“I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings,” she added.
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Tatiana, who earned a BA in History from Yale and a master’s in American history from the University of Oxford, worked as an environmental journalist and was planning a research project on ocean conservation before her diagnosis.
“My son knows that I am a writer and that I write about our planet. Since I’ve been sick, I remind him a lot, so that he will know that I was not just a sick person,” she wrote in The New Yorker. Of her younger child, she wrote, “I didn’t ever really get to take care of my daughter—I couldn’t change her diaper or give her a bath or feed her, all because of the risk of infection after my transplants. I was gone for almost half of her first year of life.”
She added, “I don’t know who, really, she thinks I am, and whether she will feel or remember, when I am gone, that I am her mother.”
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On the morning of her funeral, the JFK Library Foundation shared a recent photo of Tatiana. The photo, which was taken on Martha’s Vineyard in September, shows Tatiana and Moran with their two children.
“As we remember Tatiana and celebrate her life, our hearts are with her family and all who loved her,” the photo was captioned.
Johnson Pushes Back on ‘War Powers’ Vote Amid Iran Strikes
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on Monday that passing a war powers resolution would strip President Trump of his authority to continue military operations in Iran, warning that such a move would present a “frightening prospect.”
Representatives Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) plan to push for a vote on a war powers resolution this week, which would require Congressional authorization before Trump can use military force against Iran again. They argue that the operations in Iran put U.S. troops at risk and are not representative of an “America First” agenda.
According to a source who spoke to The Hill, the resolution is expected to be brought to the floor on Thursday.
“I think the idea that we would move a War Powers Act vote right now, I mean, it will be forced to the floor, but the idea that we would take the ability of our commander in chief, the president, take his authority away right now to finish this job, is a frightening prospect to me,” Johnson told reporters after a briefing on the operation.
“It’s dangerous, and I am certainly hopeful, and I believe we do have the votes to put it down. That’s going to be a good thing for the country and our security and stability,” he added.
The U.S. and Israel conducted joint military strikes against Iran on Saturday after weeks of threats from Trump, who had called for regime change in Tehran. Johnson wrote on the social platform X that Congress’s bipartisan “Gang of Eight” was “briefed in detail earlier this week that military action may become necessary to protect American troops and American citizens in Iran.”
On Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the Iranian military and regime were racing to achieve “immunity” for its ongoing nuclear weapons program, meaning the ability to develop enough ballistic missiles to shield itself and the program from destruction. That’s why Trump chose to act now, he added.
Trump told CNN on Monday morning that the “big wave” of the operation is yet to come. When he was asked how long the war will last, the president said, “I don’t want to see it go on too long. I always thought it would be four weeks. And we’re a little ahead of schedule.”
On Monday, Johnson told reporters he believes Trump “was acting well within his authority” as commander-in-chief to protect the country.
“It’s not a declaration of war. It’s not something that the president was required, because it’s defensive in nature and in design and in necessity, to come to Congress and get a vote first. And if they had briefed a larger group than the Gang of Eight, you know, there’s a real threat that that very sensitive intelligence that we had, you know, might have been leaked or something,” he said.
“So, this is why the commander in chief of our armed forces has the latitude that any commander in chief, any president always has, because they have a set of information that is sensitive, timely and urgent, and they have to be able to act upon it. They did that.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has urged lawmakers to support the war powers resolution, stating in a CNN interview on Monday that Trump needs to be constrained.
Presidents from both parties have taken action on behalf of the country in the past. Also, every president since the act was passed in the early 1970s has said they believe it unconstitutionally limits a president’s Article II authorities.
Trump Escalates Criticism of Ilhan Omar While Aboard Air Force One
What began earlier this month as a viral White House jab at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has now turned into a broader campaign offensive, with President Donald Trump doubling down on his criticism of the Somali-born congresswoman and the Somali refugee community in the United States.
Omar said during an October appearance on The Dean Obeidallah Show that she was not worried about losing her U.S. citizenship or being sent back to Somalia, where she was born.
“I have no worry, I don’t know how they’d take away my citizenship and like deport me,” Omar said. “But I don’t even know why that’s such a scary threat. I’m not the 8-year-old who escaped war
anymore. I’m grown, my kids are grown. I could go live wherever I want.”
On Nov. 10, the White House posted on X a 2024 photo of Trump waving from a McDonald’s drive-thru window, replying to a clip in which Omar said she was unconcerned about being deported.
The photo — taken during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania — quickly circulated online and was widely interpreted as a taunting “good-bye” message aimed at the Minnesota lawmaker.
Now, the feud has reignited. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump referenced the allegation that Omar had entered the U.S. through a fraudulent marriage.
“She supposedly came into our country by marrying her brother,” he said. “If that’s true, she shouldn’t be a congresswoman, and we should throw her the hell out of the country.”
The president also broadened his remarks to criticize Somali immigration overall.
“Somalis have caused us a lot of trouble, and they cost us a lot of money,” Trump said. “What the hell are we paying Somalia for? We have Ilhan Omar who does nothing but complain about our Constitution and our country! We’re not taking their people anymore — in fact, we’re sending them back.”
Trump has often accused Omar of being “anti-American,” previously telling her and other progressive “Squad” members to “go back” to their “broken and crime-infested countries.” Omar responded earlier this month by calling Trump a “lying buffoon” and saying his story about Somalia’s president refusing to take her back was fabricated.
The White House has signaled that it will not walk back the president’s latest statements. A senior aide said Trump was “reminding voters that America’s generosity should never be repaid with contempt.”
Omar’s family fled Somalia’s civil war in 1991 and spent several years in a Kenyan refugee camp before settling in the United States. She was elected to Congress in 2018, becoming one of the first Muslim women and the first Somali-American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The renewed confrontation underscores the political tension between Trump and radical members of the “Squad.” It comes amidst growing concerns about immigration policy and the vetting of immigrants in the aftermath of an Afghan refugee’s shooting of two National Guard members over the Thanksgiving holiday.
