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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

Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist points to South Carolina on a map of states that are passing tax cuts on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins) **FILE**

Fiscal conservatives, small businesses warn against raising top tax rate

Conservative activists and small businesses pushed back on the White House and congressional Republicans considering raising taxes on the country's highest earners.

April 16, 2025

In this undated photo provided by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, a man identified by Jennifer Vasquez Sura as her husband, Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, is led by force by guards through the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland via AP) **FILE**

Judge fires back at Trump, Bukele as Democrats turn MS-13 gang suspect into new crusade

A federal judge reinforced her demand Tuesday that the U.S. keep working to bring back an MS-13 gang suspect wrongly deported to El Salvador, dismissing statements by that country's president against releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

April 15, 2025

White House border czar Tom Homan speaks with reporters outside the White House, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Tom Homan tells Democrats to fix sanctuary cities before going to El Salvador to help deportees

President Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, suggested another destination for Democratic lawmakers planning to check on an illegal migrant deported to an El Salvador mega-prison.

April 15, 2025

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at a news conference in the Queens borough of New York, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Most New Yorkers don’t want Gov. Hochul to run again: Poll

Approval numbers for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul are upside down, with a majority of voters against her running for reelection, a new poll shows.

April 15, 2025

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks to reporters during a visit to the U.S. border with Mexico Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Eagle Pass, Texas, with Vice President J.D. Vance. (Brandon Bell/Pool via AP)

Georgia man faces charges for threatening Tulsi Gabbard and her family

A Georgia man was arrested by federal authorities last week and faces charges for threatening Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her family.

April 15, 2025

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump wave as they board Air Force One, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., for a trip to North Carolina and California. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

White House has big plans for Holy Week

The White House is planning an "extraordinary" Holy Week, highlighting Easter's spiritual and cultural significance, a move away from the secular tone from previous administrations.

April 14, 2025

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks to the media, Oct. 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

Cornyn calls on Justice Department to probe proposed planned Muslim community

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas on Monday called on top Department of Justice officials to investigate a planned Muslim community that risks religious discrimination of Christians, Jews and other non-Muslim minorities.

April 14, 2025

FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a ceremony to raise the Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag at the State Department, Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

WATCH: FBI scrutinized for hiding info on past anti-conservative actions

New FBI and Justice Department leadership is facing blowback from conservative activists for slow-walking a Freedom of Information Act request about Biden-era retaliation against agents with conservative views.

April 10, 2025

Daniel Driscoll, President Donald Trump's then-nominee to be the Department of Defense's secretary of the Army, testifies before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

FBI director Patel replaced as acting ATF chief by Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll

FBI Director Kash Patel was removed Wednesday as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and replaced by Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll.

April 9, 2025

Senate Democrats, from left, Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., gather to speak to reporters before the start of a voting marathon as Senate Republicans push the next step to pass President Donald Trump's budget agenda, at the Capitol, in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Top Democrats previously backed reciprocal tariffs and demanded punishing tariffs on China

Democrats haven't always been the anti-tariff party, with some of the party's leaders previously calling for reciprocal tariffs -- especially against China for "unfair trade policies."

April 9, 2025

A sales associate arranges a display of guns at a firearms store in Burbank, Calif., June 23, 2022 (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

DOJ, ATF repeal Biden-era gun control regulations, revisit others

The Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives repealed and revisited several gun control regulations and enforcement practices previously implemented by the Biden administration.

April 8, 2025

This combo of pictures show President Donald Trump, left, addressing a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, March 4, 2025, and a handout of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attending a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis - Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

White House says sanctions are hurting Iran, pressuring Tehran to make a deal

The White House on Tuesday said the administration's aggressive stance against Iran has crippled its global terror funding ahead of U.S. talks Saturday with the Islamic regime's leaders.

April 8, 2025

In this file photo released Jan. 16, 2021, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, a missile is launched in a drill in Iran. President Trump said on Monday, April 7, 2025, that the U.S. and Iran have had direct talks on Tehran's nuclear program. (Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Sepahnews via AP, File)

Trump says U.S. dealing with Iran directly on nuclear program

President Trump said Monday the U.S. and Iran have had direct talks on Tehran's nuclear program.

April 7, 2025

President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn as he arrives at the White House on Marine One, Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

White House planning a military parade

President Trump is expected to have a military parade in the streets of Washington, something he has wanted since his first term in office.

April 7, 2025

The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. (Associated Press, File Photo)

Conservative women push House GOP to reject proxy voting for lawmakers with new babies

Over a dozen female leaders representing prominent conservative organizations signed a letter urging House Republicans to reject an effort to allow proxy voting by lawmakers with newborns.

April 4, 2025

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen at the National Assembly, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) **FILE**

Trump calls on France to ‘free’ Marine Le Pen

President Trump defended conservative French leader Marine Le Pen, saying a "witch hunt" was launched against her by her European political enemies through lawfare tactics to silence her.

April 4, 2025

Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during the presentation of his book "On Call" at Lincoln Theatre Friday, June 21, 2024, in Washington. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Wife of Dr. Anthony Fauci reassigned from NIH to Indian health service’s regional posts

Christine Grady, the wife of Dr. Anthony Fauci, was among several top officials who were notified they were being reassigned from the National Institutes of Health to regional offices of the Indian Health Service.

April 2, 2025

House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a hearing on June 4, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Jim Jordan urges appropriators to use the power of the purse to restrain federal judges

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan wants to use Congress' next spending bills to rein in federal judges.

April 1, 2025

President Donald Trump speaks at a reception celebrating Women's History Month in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, March 26, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump declares an end to ‘the Marxist war on women’

President Trump on Wednesday proclaimed that his administration is ending the Democrats' war on women.

March 26, 2025

FILE - Vice President JD Vance leaves after speaking at the Congressional Cities Conference of the National League of Cities on Monday, March 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, file)

‘No more quotas, no more ridiculous mumbo jumbo’: Vance boasts about nixing military DEI

Vice President J.D. Vance on Wednesday crowed to corpsmen at the Marine Corps base in Quantico that the administration was making good on the promise to eliminate diversity equity and inclusion initiatives in the military.

March 26, 2025