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Kerry Picket

Kerry Picket

kpicket@washingtontimes.com

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.

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President Donald Trump arrives to the auditorium during the launch of a program known as Trump Accounts at Carnegie Mellon Auditorium, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump touts explosive early growth of new child savings accounts

President Trump said Wednesday during a rally in Marietta, Georgia, that the new Trump Accounts program, a centerpiece of his signature "Big Beautiful Bill," has already enrolled more than 7 million children and attracted nearly $1.5 billion in deposits in under three weeks.

July 22, 2026
A member of the U.S. Senate delegation wears a crossed flag pin representing the U.S. and Cuban national flags, at a press conference in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, June 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

State Department says Cuba backing radical U.S. leftists

Cuba's communist regime has been engaged in a long-term campaign of subversion in the United States through espionage and support for radicals and leftists, including black-clad Antifa street thugs and the organizers of riots in the wake of the death of George Floyd, according to a State Department report.

July 21, 2026
An FBI official places an evidence card where a man was reportedly killed in a shooting involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, Monday, July 13, 2026 in Biddeford, Maine. (Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via AP)

White House confirms ICE vehicle stops to continue

The White House on Thursday confirmed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will continue conducting traffic stops, days after reports surfaced that the tactic had been temporarily halted following two fatal shootings.

July 16, 2026
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is seen on July 9, 2017. (Spenser Heaps/The Deseret News via AP, File)

Trump slashes 3 million acres from Utah monuments

President Trump signed two executive orders Monday slashing nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, reversing Biden-era expansions and reigniting a decades-long battle over presidential authority under the Antiquities Act.

July 13, 2026