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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

People gather outside Manhattan Criminal Court to watch former President Donald Trump's motorcade to pass after the guilty verdict announced against Trump, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes as a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Guilty verdict will electrify and expand Trump base, pollsters say

Former President Donald Trump's guilty verdict in the New York hush money case is poised to energize his loyal base and motivate Republicans and some independents in key swing states to turn out in big numbers to support him in the presidential election.

May 30, 2024
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing of then Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Capitol Hill in Washington, on March 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Biden nominates judge who put transgender rapist in women’s prison

Judge Sarah Netburn, nominated by President Biden to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, faces a rocky path to confirmation after Republicans exposed her decision to move a sex offender who is a transgender woman to a women's prison.

May 28, 2024
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, speaks during a news conference outside the Capitol, Dec. 13, 2023, in Washington. Biden's lawyers will press a judge Wednesday, May 22, 2024, to delay his trial in Los Angeles, set to begin next month on charges accusing him of a scheme to avoid paying $1.4 million in taxes. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Lawmakers say newly released documents show Hunter Biden lied to Congress

House lawmakers on Wednesday made public a slew of emails, phone records and other documents provided by IRS whistleblowers that they say show President Biden's son Hunter Biden "repeatedly lied to Congress" when he gave closed-door testimony in February about his father's involvement in his lucrative foreign business deals.

May 22, 2024
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., leaves a meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., whom she has vowed to remove from his leadership post, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WATCH: MTG, AOC trade shots in committee hearing

A late-night House committee meeting looked more like a raucous episode of "The Jerry Springer Show," with partisan bickering out of control and one lawmaker insulting another for wearing "fake eyelashes."

May 17, 2024
President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden exchange points during the first presidential debate Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have officially secured the requisite numbers of delegates to be considered their parties’ presumptive nominees. The designation allows the candidates to coordinate directly with the national Democratic and Republican parties, although they aren't considered official nominees until the summer conventions.(AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool, File)

‘He has no choice’: Sinking polls push Biden onto debate stage

Amid low poll numbers that have left Democrats and the Biden campaign team in a panic, the president took charge of the debate schedule Wednesday, publicly challenging former President Donald Trump to meet him on stage at CNN's Atlanta studio for a televised debate in June.

May 15, 2024