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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

In this file photo, two women display signs as they cross the street during a protest outside a Broward County School Board meeting, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to discuss a possible mask mandate when school starts next week. From mask mandates to Critical Race Theory to LGBT reading materials, issues surrounding public education have sprung to the top of the agenda at the February 2022 gathering of CPAC, the nation’s most influential gathering of conservatives. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP) **FILE**

Conservatives rally to break the left’s grip on public schools

Education has sprung to the top of the agenda at the nation's most influential gathering of conservatives.

February 26, 2022

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Ukraine crisis cements conservatives’ shift away from U.S. military interventions

Two decades of war after the 9/11 attacks, coupled with President Trump's four years of "America First" policies have solidified the GOP's shift away from supporting military entanglements overseas, even among the most conservative Republicans.

February 24, 2022

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Sunday, July 11, 2021, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

2024 hopefuls jockey for a head start at CPAC

A who's who of the Republican Party will descend on Florida this week to audition for leader of the conservative movement heading into the 2024 presidential election.

February 23, 2022

Rep. Byron Donalds, Florida Republican Wednesday justified his decision to switch his House speaker vote from Kevin McCarthy by saying the GOP leader's chances have diminished. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)

GOP lawmakers denounce Trudeau over treatment of Canadian truckers

A group of House Republicans condemned Canada's vaccine mandates and treatment protesting truckers in a letter they sent Wednesday to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Biden.

February 23, 2022

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., heads to a GOP strategy lunch at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP increases lead over Dems in latest generic congressional ballot survey

Republicans have expanded their midterm elections advantage over Democrats by 4 percentage points, and now enjoy a 13-point lead in the latest generic congressional ballot.

February 22, 2022

American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp advises concerned voters to check out the conservative ratings of Congress as determined by their actual voting records. (American Conservative Union) ** FILE **

ACU chairman defends CPAC’s Tulsi Gabbard booking over Putin coziness claim

American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp hit back at a former Republican lawmaker who accused Mr. Schlapp of being cozy with Russian President Vladimir Putin over this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference line-up.

February 21, 2022

In this Feb. 8, 2020, file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, speaks during the McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to speak at CPAC

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Democrat, is expected to deliver remarks this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference, American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp announced Monday.

February 21, 2022

Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., right, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, left, exchange places at the podium during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Election panel rejects Dem attempt to remove GOP lawmaker from ballot over Jan. 6 ‘insurrection’

Rep. Jim Banks survived an attempt by a Democratic candidate to disqualify him from the ballot over the events of Jan. 6.

February 18, 2022

In this file photo, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., pauses as she speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

House Dems’ internal poll shows woke backlash against their agenda in competitive districts

House Democrats got a wake call from new internal polling that showed their far-left agenda is turning off voters in battleground states.

February 18, 2022

House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks during a news conference, on Jan. 20, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCarthy is endorsing challenger Harriet Hageman over Rep, Liz Cheney in the GOP primary in Wyoming, a rare departure for a party leader attempting to boost a Trump-aligned candidate over one of the former president's chief critics. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Kevin McCarthy endorses Liz Cheney’s primary opponent

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy made an unusual endorsement for a party leader Thursday, backing Republican attorney Harriet Hageman, the primary opponent of incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming.

February 17, 2022

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., is seen here in this file photo in a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. Mr. Maloney serves as the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

DCCC chair talks about enjoying the drug ecstasy in college

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney has decided to talk about his psychedelic drug use while a student at the University of Virginia.

February 17, 2022

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., talks to reporters before leaving Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 27, 2020. The nation's fiercest fiscal conservatives are largely embracing the massive economic rescue package moving through Congress. In many cases, those conservatives who support the $2 trillion coronavirus spending bill are the very same who raged against the $800 billion economic stimulus package backed by the Obama administration after the 2008 financial crisis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Republicans to move forward with lawsuit against House mask mandate even if rule is lifted

Rep. Thomas Massie announced that even if Democrats convince Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lift the House mask mandate, he and two other Republicans will not drop their federal lawsuit against the rule.

February 11, 2022

Ranking member Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations nomination hearing for Randi Charno Levine to be Ambassador to the Portugal, N. Nickolas Perry to be Ambassador to Jamaica, Laura Farnsworth Dogu to be Ambassador to the Republic of Honduras, and Deborah E. Lipstadt to be Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, with the rank of Ambassador, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Senate Republicans move to cut off federal funds for crack pipes

Senate Republicans on Thursday introduced legislation that would prohibit any federal spending that directly or indirectly purchases, supplies or distributes crack pipes or similar drug paraphernalia to addicts.

February 10, 2022

In this file photo, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., pauses as she speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Virginia Democrat calls ‘bull——’ on proposed rule banning stock trades for members of Congress

Two Virginia Democratic lawmakers in battleground districts are on opposite sides of a contentious issue about whether members of Congress should be banned from trading stocks.

February 10, 2022

In this file photo, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia Republican, listens during a news conference about the treatment of people being held in the District of Columbia jail who are charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Ms. Greene has criticized Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, for describing the Jan. 6 incident as "terrorism." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for confusing ‘gazpacho’ with ‘Gestapo’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was ridiculed Wednesday after saying "gazpacho police" instead of "Gestapo" while criticizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot.

February 10, 2022

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, arrives for a closed-door briefing on Afghanistan on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Republicans refuse to let Democrats off the hook as lawmakers reframe messaging amid surging crime

Skyrocketing crime in cities nationwide was the focus of heated election-year rhetoric in Congress on Wednesday, as Republicans blamed Democrats for efforts to defund the police, while Democratic lawmakers made a pitch for law-and-order initiatives.

February 9, 2022

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) ** FILE **

Pelosi says she’s not involved in Capitol Police spying on Republican lawmakers

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday said allegations of U.S. Capitol Police surveilling Republican members of Congress had nothing to do with her.

February 9, 2022

Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., speaks as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears before a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on budget on Capitol Hill, March 27, 2019, in Washington. Rogers apologized for using an expletive when Rep. Joyce Beatty asked him to put his mask on while in the Capitol. The Ohio Democrat says Rogers told her to kiss his ass during an altercation on the way to vote Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. Beatty says Rogers, who has served in Congress since 1981, poked her in her back before using the expletive. Rogers says in a statement that he met with Beatty to apologize and that his words were not acceptable. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Rep. Hal Rogers apologizes to Rep. Joyce Beatty after squabble over mask-wearing

Rep. Hal Rogers apologized to Rep. Joyce Beatty on Tuesday after he told the Ohio Democrat to "kiss my a--" when she told him to wear a mask while riding the Capitol subway with her.

February 8, 2022

U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in this Friday, Sept. 17, 2021 file photo. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

IG to probe claim Capitol Police took photos in lawmaker’s office

The inspector general for the U.S. Capitol Police has opened an investigation into accusations that one of its officers surreptitiously entered Rep. Troy E. Nehls' office and took photographs.

February 8, 2022

Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., takes a question from a reporter at a news conference held by the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Aug. 23, 2021. The committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection has requested an interview with Perry. The Republican lawmaker is the first sitting member of Congress the panel has requested to speak with. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Cleanup of Washington’s partisan bureaucracy emerges as top priority for House Freedom Caucus

Rep. Scott Perry, the new chairman of the arch-conservative House Freedom Caucus, is pushing Republican leaders to gut federal agencies of what he says are partisan hacks who dominate middle-management throughout Washington.

February 8, 2022