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Kerry Picket

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

RNC chairwoman urges Nikki Haley to withdraw from presidential campaign

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel called on Nikki Haley to consider withdrawing from the presidential race Tuesday night.

January 24, 2024

GOP congressional leaders declare Trump ‘presumptive nominee’

Leaders of the GOP House and Senate congressional campaign arms declared former President Donald Trump the party's "presumptive nominee" without waiting for Tuesday night's results from the first Republican primary in New Hampshire.

January 23, 2024

Democrats’ Jan. 6 committee accused of deleting over 100 files before GOP took control of House

The now-defunct House Select Committee on Jan. 6 destroyed more than 100 encrypted files from its 2021 investigation before Republicans took over the chamber, House investigators say.

January 23, 2024

Bowman apologizes for lauding pro-Hamas speaker at district event

Rep. Jamaal Bowman is apologizing for introducing with praise a speaker who has accused Jews of exploiting the Holocaust to legitimize Israel's treatment of Palestinians.

January 22, 2024

New poll shows upcoming New York special election as a squeaker to replace Santos

A new poll of New York voters in the state's upcoming 3rd Congressional District special election shows a neck-and-neck contest to replace disgraced former Rep. George Santos.

January 19, 2024

Congressman accuses DOJ of hiding evidence of undercover agents involved in U.S. Capitol riot

Rep. Clay Higgins says the Justice Department is withholding exculpatory evidence from police video and audio recordings that reveal hundreds of undercover law enforcement officers were among the rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and helped incite the attack.

January 19, 2024

House Republicans pass pro-life bills before Roe v. Wade anniversary

House Republicans passed two pieces of pro-life legislation Thursday, days before the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion.

January 18, 2024

Federal agencies flagged Americans’ financial transactions using terms like ‘Trump’ and ‘MAGA’

The federal government flags terms like "MAGA" and "Trump" for financial institutions if Americans use those phrases when completing transactions, according to new documents obtained by the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

January 17, 2024

Bob Good not concerned about Trump campaign threats to oust him from office

Rep. Bob Good, Virginia Republican, brushed off reporters' questions about threats from Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita, who said recently that the conservative firebrand would be unelectable in this year's GOP primary after Trump world puts him through the wringer.

January 17, 2024

Fox News cancels MyPillow ads

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell announced Friday that Fox News Channel dropped MyPillow commercials.

January 12, 2024

Congressional Democrats move to crack down on militia activity in the U.S.

A pair of Democratic lawmakers introduced bills Thursday to prevent private paramilitary activity in the U.S.

January 11, 2024

NYC students forced out of school building after officials move in nearly 2,000 migrants

New York City high school students' classes went remote Wednesday after nearly 2,000 migrants moved into their school building in Brooklyn following an evacuation from a tent shelter Tuesday to avoid a massive rainstorm.

January 10, 2024

Robert Menendez makes the case that he is the victim of political payback

Sen. Robert Menendez called the federal criminal corruption case against him "outrageous" and "unprecedented" and suggested Tuesday that it was an attempt to remove a key voice blocking some of President Biden's initiatives.

January 9, 2024

DOJ says it could have targeted nonviolent Jan. 6 protesters who did not enter Capitol

The Justice Department says its prosecutors could have but did not target all Jan. 6 protesters who gathered in "restricted" areas around the Capitol three years ago, regardless of whether they participated in violent acts or entered the Capitol building.

January 7, 2024

GOP lawmaker wants government shut down over illegal immigration flood

A Republican lawmaker who visited the southern border with other GOP members in Texas called for a government shutdown over the surge of illegal migrants entering the U.S.

January 5, 2024

Republicans at border insist on security; Speaker Johnson raps Biden team for ‘unmitigated disaster’

House Speaker Mike Johnson led dozens of Republicans to the border in Texas on Wednesday, saying they got a first-hand look at the devastation of unprecedented illegal immigration and calling the situation "heartbreaking and infuriating."

January 3, 2024

House chairman leading impeachment calls Mayorkas ‘greatest domestic threat’

The House on Wednesday announced its first hearing on impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, officially kicking off the quest to oust the man who's overseen the most chaotic border in modern history.

January 3, 2024

Maine Secretary of State Bellows says home targeted in swatting incident

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said on her Facebook page Saturday that her house was swatted.

December 30, 2023

GOP lawmakers say strategy to kick Trump off ballot is 2020 COVID election laws all over again

Republicans say legal maneuvers to remove former President Donald Trump from several states' GOP primary ballot are no different from when liberal activists successfully used the courts to change election laws during the COVID pandemic before the 2020 presidential campaign.

December 30, 2023

Swatting hits law professor Jonathan Turley

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley says he's the latest victim of swatting, an action of fake calls for police response.

December 30, 2023

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Kerry Picket

Articles by Kerry Picket

RNC chairwoman urges Nikki Haley to withdraw from presidential campaign

GOP congressional leaders declare Trump ‘presumptive nominee’

Democrats’ Jan. 6 committee accused of deleting over 100 files before GOP took control of House

Bowman apologizes for lauding pro-Hamas speaker at district event

New poll shows upcoming New York special election as a squeaker to replace Santos

Congressman accuses DOJ of hiding evidence of undercover agents involved in U.S. Capitol riot

House Republicans pass pro-life bills before Roe v. Wade anniversary

Federal agencies flagged Americans’ financial transactions using terms like ‘Trump’ and ‘MAGA’

Bob Good not concerned about Trump campaign threats to oust him from office

Fox News cancels MyPillow ads

Congressional Democrats move to crack down on militia activity in the U.S.

NYC students forced out of school building after officials move in nearly 2,000 migrants

Robert Menendez makes the case that he is the victim of political payback

DOJ says it could have targeted nonviolent Jan. 6 protesters who did not enter Capitol

GOP lawmaker wants government shut down over illegal immigration flood

Republicans at border insist on security; Speaker Johnson raps Biden team for ‘unmitigated disaster’

House chairman leading impeachment calls Mayorkas ‘greatest domestic threat’

Maine Secretary of State Bellows says home targeted in swatting incident

GOP lawmakers say strategy to kick Trump off ballot is 2020 COVID election laws all over again

Swatting hits law professor Jonathan Turley