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Susan Ferrechio

Susan Ferrechio

sferrechio@washingtontimes.com

Susan Ferrechio has been writing about politics and national news for more than three decades, providing coverage through six presidents and eight House speakers. She writes about politics and other top national issues for The Washington Times. Her coverage includes Congress, the presidency, elections, and energy policy with an emphasis on stories ignored by other media.
She first joined The Washington Times in 1995 then moved to The Miami Herald, followed by Congressional Quarterly and The Washington Examiner, where she served as chief congressional correspondent and provided coverage for four presidential campaign cycles and countless congressional and senate races. She returned to The Washington Times in 2022 and serves as national politics correspondent. Susan has provided commentary for Fox News, MSNBC, NEWSMAX, ABC News, NewsNation, WMAL Radio, CSPAN and the McLaughlin Group.
She can be reached at sferrechio@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Susan Ferrechio

President Joe Biden, joined virtually by Vice President Kamala Harris and by Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Homeland Security Adviser to the President, not shown, listens to a briefing about preparations for Hurricane Milton and the response to Hurricane Helene in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Presidential politics churn through Hurricane Milton

As Hurricane Milton thrashed Florida just weeks before the election, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris seized on storm preparations to try to restore public confidence in the administration's disaster recovery efforts and to take aim at their Republican opponent, former President Trump.

October 9, 2024
A car drives past a pile of debris from Hurricane Helene flooding, along a street that had already begun flooding from rain ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Milton, in Gulfport, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Florida bracing for battering from Hurricane Milton, not relying on FEMA

A hurricane "a whisker shy" of a Category 5 storm is set to hit the state's west coast as early as Wednesday night, Gov. Ron DeSantis warned residents, urging people in targeted areas to evacuate and promising a rapid emergency cleanup and rescue response that won't rely on the federal government.

October 9, 2024
Duke Energy project manager Tiger Yates, bottom center, walks among the hundreds of lineman trucks staged, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. at The Villages, Fla. in preparation for Hurricane Milton. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

Harris, DeSantis clash as hurricane season gets political

One of the most dangerous hurricanes to impact the state is expected to make landfall here Wednesday, and Gov. Ron DeSantis had no time for politics, rejecting a phone call from Vice President Kamala Harris as she scrambles to improve her image as a leader after the federal government's much-criticized response to Hurricane Helene.

October 8, 2024
Dominick Gucciardo walks to his home in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Pensacola, N.C. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

As Helene victims wait, FEMA funds run dry from illegal immigrant aid

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is out of money as it scrambles to help flood-ravaged areas of Georgia and North Carolina. Stranded residents are begging for help and reporting that the federal government has yet to show up or provide any aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

October 3, 2024
Various Google logos are displayed on a Google search, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Google buries Trump campaign website under hit pieces

A study has found that Google is hiding former President Donald Trump's campaign website under stories written by liberal news outlets while searches of Vice President Kamala Harris display flattering results and her campaign website more prominently.

September 26, 2024
Ryan Wesley Routh takes part in a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Judge denies bail to would-be Trump assassin

A federal judge in South Florida denied bond to Ryan Wesley Routh, who is accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.

September 23, 2024
Ryan Wesley Routh takes part in a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Trump attempted assassin says he’s an atheist

Ryan Routh, the man arrested Sunday after hiding in the bushes of former President Donald Trump's golf course with an SKS-style rifle pointed at the green, identified himself as an atheist when he was booked into the Palm Beach County, Florida, jail.

September 19, 2024