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Kerry Picket is a White House correspondent for The Washington Times.
Picket covered the hill at other DC-based outlets including the Daily Caller and the Washington Examiner. Before that, she produced news for Robin Quivers of The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, wrote entertainment news for MTV Radio, and worked as a production assistant at MTV.com.
Picket is also a former radio guest host at SiriusXM Patriot 125 and appears frequently as a guest commentator on cable news programs and syndicated radio shows.
She can be reached at kpicket@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Kerry Picket

The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building is seen June 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Trump budget includes cuts to FBI, DOJ

President Trump's new budget proposal includes $545 million in cuts to the FBI and other Justice Department agencies.

May 2, 2025

The headquarters for National Public Radio (NPR) is seen in Washington, April 15, 2013. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cease federal funding for NPR and PBS

President Trump has ordered an end to taxpayer subsidization of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.

May 2, 2025

President Donald Trump gestures after giving a commencement address at the University of Alabama, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump suggests secrets to success to Alabama students during commencement speech

President Trump offered almost a dozen pieces of life advice during his Thursday evening commencement speech to graduating students at the University of Alabam

May 1, 2025

Iranian oil tanker Fortune is anchored at the dock of the El Palito refinery near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, May 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Ernesto Vargas, File)

Trump says nations that purchase oil from Iran will be banned from doing business with U.S.

President Trump warned of new secondary oil sanctions against Iran Thursday and described harrowing accounts from freed hostages who were held captive by Hamas terrorists in their attacks on Israel.

May 1, 2025

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro speaks to reporters Friday, June 3, 2022, outside of federal court in Washington. Navarro was indicted Friday on contempt charges after defying a subpoena from the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Grassley calls on FBI to release Biden-era emails over jailed first-term Trump personnel

Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley on Thursday asked the FBI for internal communications regarding the prosecution of President Trump and his first-term White House staff.

May 1, 2025

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Stephen Miller says the Washington press corps is acting as ‘shills for MS-13 terrorists’

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller lashed out at journalists Thursday for the way they've covered illegal immigration, saying they had to be shamed into reporting on rapes and slayings of Americans.

May 1, 2025

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Rx and Illicit drug Summit, Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

HHS quits paying for kids’ ‘gender-affirming care’ that was promoted under Biden administration

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday said his department has "ended funding for gender mutilation surgeries and other kind of gender dysphoria practices."

April 30, 2025

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Transportation secretary calls on Congress to fund new air traffic control system

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Wednesday said his department is developing a state-of-the-art air traffic control system to replace the current program, which hasn't been updated since the 1980s.

April 30, 2025

President Donald Trump arrives to speak on his first 100 days at Macomb County Community College Sports Expo Center, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Warren, Mich. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

WATCH: Trump voters celebrate 100-day mark at Michigan rally

In the first rally of his improbable second term, President Trump sounded like he was running for a third, touting major accomplishments, making huge promises and jabbing at Democrats who are angling to block him.

April 29, 2025

A child, bundled against the cold, stands in line to attend an immigration registration meeting outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Feb. 4, 2025. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette Via AP) **FILE**

Trump opponents see kids as Achilles’ heel of immigration crackdown

The same people who years ago accused President Trump of "family separations" for deporting parents without their children in tow are now lambasting him for sending the children with their parents.

April 28, 2025

White House border czar Tom Homan walks off following a television interview at the White House, Monday, April 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Border czar Tom Homan says citizenship of kids doesn’t make parents ‘immune’ from U.S. law

White House border czar Tom Homan said having a citizen child doesn't make someone "immune" from U.S. immigration laws.

April 28, 2025

White House border czar Tom Homan talks with reporters at the White House, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Tom Homan: Biden put up illegal migrants in pricey hotels to help them evade deportations

White House border czar Tom Homan accused the Biden administration of putting up illegal migrants in expensive hotel rooms instead of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities, helping migrants avoid deportation.

April 28, 2025

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he and first lady Melania Trump depart on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Washington. The President and first lady will be traveling to Rome and the Vatican to attend the funeral for Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump reveals 200 trade deals are done, with no specifics

President Trump said the U.S. has made 200 trade deals, but has yet to name which nations were involved.

April 25, 2025

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump makes probationary periods tougher for new federal workers

President Trump on Thursday ordered a new set of performance evaluations for federal workers during the probationary period of their employment.

April 24, 2025

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he signs executive orders relating to education in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Poll shows voters give Trump low marks on economic plan, approve of his border policies

President Trump is getting dour reviews from voters on his handling of inflation and the economy, but they are satisfied with his approach to immigration and securing the border, according to a Fox News poll released Thursday.

April 24, 2025

New York Mayor Eric Adams speaks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a task force meeting addressing retail theft, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Joseph Frederick) ** FILE **

Crowded race for New York mayor offers something for every political stripe

The New York mayor's race has already attracted roughly a dozen candidates, including a disgraced former governor, a democratic socialist and a Republican best known for founding the Guardian Angels vigilante group.

April 24, 2025

President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order relating to Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump signs executive order targeting education accrediting system

President Trump expanded his assault on woke cultures in America's education system with executive orders signed Wednesday.

April 23, 2025

Native American imagery is painted along a walkway which leads from the Bountiful High School parking lot up to the football field Tuesday, July 28, 2020, in Bountiful, Utah. While advocates have made strides in getting Native American symbols and names changed in sports, they say there's still work to do mainly at the high school level, where mascots like Braves, Indians, Warriors, Chiefs and Redskins persist. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Trump weighs in against erasing Native American names from sports teams

President Trump said Wednesday that it made little sense to force sports teams to get rid of names referencing Native Americans.

April 23, 2025

Newt Gingrich is reportedly one of the short-listed candidates for ticketmate with the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Gingrich says Trump note shows he wants to avoid raising taxes

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Trump told him he has no plans to raise taxes on anyone.

April 22, 2025

Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., speaks before a gathering to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail at the Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Ky., June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Rep. Barr to run for McConnell’s Senate seat in GOP primary

Rep. Andy Barr announced Tuesday that he will run for Kentucky's U.S. Senate seat in 2026, looking to replace longtime Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who is retiring.

April 22, 2025