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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

President Donald Trump speaks at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. (Pool via AP)

WATCH: Trump calls on DOJ to expose its own past corruption and abuses

President Trump on Friday told Justice Department employees to expose past corruption and abuse at the department and usher in a new era of accountability.

March 14, 2025

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., questions Attorney General Merrick Garland during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Department of Justice, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biggs seeks FBI probe into Democrat fundraising apparatus ActBlue

A House Republican lawmaker Thursday called on the FBI to begin an inquiry into the main fundraising apparatus of the Democratic Party.

March 13, 2025

President Donald Trump speaks as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent listens as Trump prepares to sign an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warns Democrats they’ll own the shutdown, hurt the economy

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday said the administration's new tariffs will help American workers but Senate Democrats will hurt the economy if they shut down the government.

March 13, 2025

White House trade counselor Peter Navarro speaks with reporters the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro warns reporters unfair coverage can hurt economy

White House senior trade adviser Peter Navarro warned reporters Wednesday that their media coverage affects how the economy reacts and that most media coverage is unfair to President Trump.

March 12, 2025

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

White House digs in on Trump’s wish to repeal CHIPS Act outright

The White House reiterated President Trump's position that Congress fully repeal 2022 legislation intended to fire up the U.S. semiconductor industry despite some Senate Republicans who say they are only willing to make reforms to the Biden-era law.

March 12, 2025

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Tensions flare between White House press secretary and AP reporter over tariffs

Tensions between The Associated Press and the White House flared up again Tuesday when White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt lashed out at an AP reporter for attempting to test her understanding of economics.

March 11, 2025

In this file photo taken June 13, 2011, Bob Olding, president of Damilic Corp., the leading manufacturer of automatic signing machines for replicating authentic signatures, demonstrates the features of the older model Autopen Model 80 in Rockville, Md. Autopens have been used for decades by presidents of both parties, an open secret nobody in Washington wants to talk about, including the White House. (File, AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden’s use of an autopen on official documents raises questions from critics

Many executive orders signed by former President Biden were approved with an autopen device, prompting questions from detractors about whether Mr. Biden was fully mindful of the documents he was signing when he was president.

March 11, 2025

Tears roll down the face of Starlette Thomas, of Bowie, Md., as she holds a chunk of pavement from the Black Lives Matter mural, Monday, March 10, 2025, as the mural begins to be demolished in Washington. "I needed to be here to bear witness," says Thomas, who was present at the 2020 George Floyd protests. "For me the Black Lives Matter sign etched in stone was a declaration of somebodyness and to watch it be undone in this way was very hurtful. To walk away with a piece of that, it means it's not gone. It's more than brick and mortar." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

D.C. work crews begin removing Black Lives Matter mural near White House

Work crews in the District started Monday removing the Black Lives Matter mural that was painted on a city street two blocks from the White House five years ago.

March 10, 2025

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, from left, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, President Donald Trump and White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks attend the White House Crypto Summit in Washington, Friday, March 7, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Trump signals end of government ‘weaponization’ against crypto

The White House held its first crypto-summit one day after President Trump signed an executive order to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve for the U.S.

March 7, 2025

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) ** FILE **

AOC’s immigrant ‘education’ puts sexual predators on the street, says White House border czar

White House border czar Tom Homan upped his feud with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying her know-your-rights seminar for illegal immigrants will end up shielding serious criminals.

March 7, 2025

FILE - Then Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference on July 27, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Trump signs strategic bitcoin reserve executive order

President Trump signed an executive order establishing a strategic bitcoin reserve on Thursday.

March 6, 2025

In this image, made from NASA TV, US astronaut Suni Williams works outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/NASA TV)

Trump says Musk preparing to return NASA astronauts to Earth in two weeks

President Trump on Thursday said tech billionaire Elon Musk is preparing to launch a SpaceX ship in two weeks to return NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to Earth from the International Space Station.

March 6, 2025

Ukrainian refugees wait near the U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico, April 4, 2022. A month after Russia invaded Ukraine, refugees started showing up to the U.S.-Mexico border. Roughly 1,000 Ukrainians a day flew to Tijuana on tourist visas, desperate to get into the country. The volume was overwhelming the nation’s busiest border crossing in San Diego. Just over the border in Tijuana, Mexico, thousands of Ukrainians slept in a municipal gym, hoping for a chance to get across. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

White House disputes report of plan to revoke temporary legal status of Ukrainians in U.S.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt pushed back on a report Thursday that the administration is preparing to revoke temporary legal status for about 240,000 Ukrainians who escaped the war against Russia.

March 6, 2025

Seats are empty on the Democratic side of the aisle as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Irate opposition struggling with Trump’s return; antics at speech highlight Dems’ conundrum

Democrats' dilemma has been on full display this week as they struggle with how to respond to Trump 2.0.

March 5, 2025

Devarjay "D.J." Daniel waves as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrats double down on ignoring child with cancer at joint session

A pair of Democrats doubled down Wednesday on their decision to avoid bipartisan celebrations at the joint session of Congress on Tuesday, particularly when President Trump recognized a 13-year-old boy who survived brain cancer.

March 5, 2025

A worker assembles an SUV at a car plant of Li Auto, a major Chinese EV maker, in Changzhou in eastern China's Jiangsu province March 27, 2024. (Chinatopix Via AP, File)

Trump promises growth in the auto industry from new tariffs

President Trump at Tuesday's joint session of Congress promised growth in the U.S. auto industry from tariffs he imposed on foreign countries including Canada, China and Mexico.

March 4, 2025

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump promises that U.S. ‘will be woke no longer’

President Trump used his address to the joint session of Congress to tout his actions reversing Biden administration policies on gender identity and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.

March 4, 2025

The flags of Canada and the United States fly outside a hotel in downtown Ottawa, on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Trump takes another swipe at Canadian banks within hours of imposing tariffs

President Trump on Tuesday took another jab at Canadian banks within hours of imposing a 25% tariff on imported goods from the U.S. neighbor north of the border.

March 4, 2025

Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's New York Field Office James Dennehy speaks during a press conference in regards to the arrests of former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries and his partners as part of sex trafficking investigation at the U.S. Attorney's Office, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

FBI boss in New York forced out

The head of the FBI's New York Field Office was pushed out of the bureau on Monday, a month after he told his employees to resist an administration official who requested the names of all agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases.

March 3, 2025

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's choice to be director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Kash Patel disputes whistleblower revelation about FBI ‘honeypot’ agent spying on Trump campaign

FBI Director Kash Patel is disputing a bureau whistleblower who identified a female undercover FBI agent as a "honeypot" who infiltrated President Trump's 2016 campaign.

March 3, 2025