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.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken lied to Congress when he denied knowing President Biden's son Hunter Biden held a lucrative job on the board of a Ukrainian gas company, two Republican senators said in a letter delivered to the nation's top diplomat Tuesday morning.
Two top congressional Republicans are investigating whether green-energy groups and a consumer magazine coordinated with the Biden administration to restrict and even ban the use of gas stoves.
Hunter Biden pays $20,000 per month in child support for a daughter neither he nor his father, President Biden, include in their lives or even acknowledge, his lawyer revealed at a hearing ordered by an Arkansas judge considering his bid to lower the payments.
The staff at the "overly political" National Archives refused to help President Trump pack up his office in the final days of his administration, according to Mr. Trump, and their absence caused him to unknowingly take classified material to his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.
The Florida Legislature is poised to endorse an aggressive plan by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to discourage illegal immigration by penalizing employers who hire them.
The Biden administration is poised to impose new carbon capture rules for natural gas power plants even as states and industry groups complain that the EPA is lagging far behind on permits allowing for the construction of the new technology.
Congressional Democrats are shrugging off an IRS whistleblower who wants to provide Congress with evidence that the Hunter Biden tax-crimes investigation has been thwarted for political reasons.
A top Senate Democrat is demanding that Texas billionaire and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow turn over documents and other information related to luxury trips he provided to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
An anonymous IRS whistleblower has come forward with a complaint that the Biden administration is improperly handling an investigation into President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and given him preferential treatment.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is increasingly on the ropes against former President Donald Trump, who is claiming congressional endorsements and polling victories as his campaign tries to stop Mr. DeSantis from officially entering the presidential race.
A federal appeals court has overturned Berkeley, California's 2019 ban on natural gas in new construction, setting a precedent that is likely to impact dozens of other municipalities that have moved to end natural gas use or are considering a prohibition.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer will introduce a resolution this week that would repudiate former President Trump's call to defund the FBI and Justice Department.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called on President Biden to start negotiating with Republicans on a deal to raise the debt ceiling, addressing the Senate for the first since suffering a concussion in a fall six weeks ago.
House Republicans will start considering a plan to raise the nation's $31.4 trillion borrowing limit when lawmakers return to the U.S. Capitol this week, while the Senate will grapple with a key vacancy that is holding up President Biden's judicial nominees.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who will need to win evangelical voters if he decides to enter the 2024 Republican presidential primary, signed a new bill imposing one of the strictest abortion limits in the nation.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he's returning to Congress Monday after a nearly six-week absence recovering from a concussion suffered in a fall.
China fired a warning shot at President Biden when a Chinese-American bank supplied Senate Republicans with records showing millions of dollars flowing from Chinese companies to Mr. Biden's son Hunter Biden and brother James Biden, said a lawmaker spearheading an investigation of the first family.