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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.

Articles by Kerry Picket

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump promises that U.S. ‘will be woke no longer’

President Trump used his address to the joint session of Congress to tout his actions reversing Biden administration policies on gender identity and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.

March 4, 2025
Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's New York Field Office James Dennehy speaks during a press conference in regards to the arrests of former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries and his partners as part of sex trafficking investigation at the U.S. Attorney's Office, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

FBI boss in New York forced out

The head of the FBI's New York Field Office was pushed out of the bureau on Monday, a month after he told his employees to resist an administration official who requested the names of all agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases.

March 3, 2025
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's new Director of the FBI, speaks during a swearing-in ceremony, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to lead ATF

Newly sworn-in FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to take the reins of another federal law enforcement agency as the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

February 23, 2025
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute summit in Miami Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Trump conquers CPAC 10 years after hostility

Like so much of the rest of the political right -- from Reaganism to the tea party movement -- Donald Trump has conquered CPAC, bringing it into the broader MAGA fold.

February 20, 2025
FILE - Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's choice to be director of the FBI, arrives for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Senate confirms Kash Patel as FBI director

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Kash Patel as FBI director, handing President Trump's outspoken nominee a green light to overhaul the bureau that conservatives say had been "weaponized" against them.

February 20, 2025