Ben Wolfgang

Ben Wolfgang is a National Security Correspondent for The Washington Times. His reporting is regularly featured in the daily Threat Status newsletter.
Previously, he covered energy and the environment, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016, and also spent two years as a White House correspondent during the Obama administration.
Before coming to The Times in 2011, Ben worked as political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa.
He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Ben Wolfgang

White House: More changes to contraception mandate coming

The White House is eyeing further changes to the controversial provision in the hopes of reaching something of a compromise with nonprofit charities and universities.

July 23, 2014

Obama, Biden overhaul job training programs

House Republicans may be suing President Obama for executive overreach, but for one day at least, members of the GOP joined the president at the White House Tuesday as the administration announced a sweeping overhaul of the federal government's job-training programs.

July 22, 2014

Foreign crises won’t derail Obama’s fundraising trip, White House says

Amid increasing violence in the Middle East and questions still swirling around the aircraft shot down over Ukraine last week, the White House is not considering canceling President Obama's upcoming trip to the West Coast for Democratic party fundraisers.

July 21, 2014

White House takes credit for drop in unaccompanied children at border

The White House on Monday took partial credit for a significant drop in the number of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent weeks.

July 21, 2014

Obama takes executive action on LGBT discrimination, but leaves religious loophole

President Obama on Monday took executive action to bar discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender federal employees and contractors, but the move already has come under fire by some groups that say it doesn't go far enough and leaves loopholes for religious employers.

July 21, 2014

Illegal immigration crisis poses quandary for Democrats

Potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidates are showing divisions over how to handle the surge of illegal immigrant children, underscoring how quickly the immigration issue has gone from what they thought was a guaranteed political winner to an electoral headache.

July 16, 2014

Obama: House, Senate failing on infrastructure funding

President Obama said Tuesday he supports short-term bills in the House and Senate to fund infrastructure projects, but said lawmakers should by no means be proud of those efforts.

July 15, 2014

Obama to bypass Congress on infrastructure repair

With the House and Senate scrambling to act before the Highway Trust Fund runs dry, the White House on Monday said President Obama will bypass lawmakers and use an executive action to repair the nation's crumbling infrastructure.

July 14, 2014

Arab-American group to boycott Obama’s Ramadan dinner

Citing America's support for Israel and its alleged spying on Muslims, a powerful Arab-American group has called for a boycott of Monday night's annual Iftar dinner at the White House.

July 14, 2014

White House sticks by ‘plan A’ to handle illegal immigrant children

Even though House Republicans have declared it all but dead, President Obama's $3.7 billion plan to deal with the flood of illegal immigrant children coming across the border remains "plan A" and should be embraced by Congress, the White House said Monday.

July 14, 2014

Obama to take executive actions on infrastructure this week

With just weeks remaining before federal funding for road and bridge repair dries up, President Obama will take new executive actions this week to spur infrastructure investment from the private sector, the White House announced Monday.

July 14, 2014

Obama says he prefers results, not ‘photo ops’

Images of presidents at the Berlin Wall, ground zero in New York and, more recently, the New Jersey boardwalk devastated by Superstorm Sandy often are more important than words, specialists say, and aid commanders in chief in being seen as true leaders dedicated to comforting victims — rallying the nation following a tragedy or confronting crises.

July 13, 2014

Obama’s ‘blank check’ rejected as border solution

Not even a week after it was offered, President Obama's $3.7 billion plan to deal with the growing crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border appears all but dead, with Republican lawmakers Sunday decrying the administration's "blank check" proposal and instead calling for a more targeted response centered on greater border security.

July 13, 2014