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Susan Ferrechio

Susan Ferrechio

sferrechio@washingtontimes.com

Susan Ferrechio has been writing about politics and national news for more than three decades, providing coverage through six presidents and eight House speakers. She writes about politics and other top national issues for The Washington Times. Her coverage includes Congress, the presidency, elections, and energy policy with an emphasis on stories ignored by other media.
She first joined The Washington Times in 1995 then moved to The Miami Herald, followed by Congressional Quarterly and The Washington Examiner, where she served as chief congressional correspondent and provided coverage for four presidential campaign cycles and countless congressional and senate races. She returned to The Washington Times in 2022 and serves as national politics correspondent. Susan has provided commentary for Fox News, MSNBC, NEWSMAX, ABC News, NewsNation, WMAL Radio, CSPAN and the McLaughlin Group.
She can be reached at sferrechio@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Susan Ferrechio

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris prepares for a briefing at FEMA headquarters, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, in Washington, on recovery and assistance efforts after Hurricane Helene. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

FEMA still spending heavily on COVID and decades-old storms

While the Federal Emergency Management Agency clamors for more money to deal with hurricanes and floods, it is spending a significant portion of its disaster relief fund to help communities and individuals deal with COVID-19 as well as natural disasters that occurred years and even decades ago.

October 11, 2024
President Joe Biden, joined virtually by Vice President Kamala Harris and by Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Homeland Security Adviser to the President, not shown, listens to a briefing about preparations for Hurricane Milton and the response to Hurricane Helene in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Presidential politics churn through Hurricane Milton

As Hurricane Milton thrashed Florida just weeks before the election, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris seized on storm preparations to try to restore public confidence in the administration's disaster recovery efforts and to take aim at their Republican opponent, former President Trump.

October 9, 2024
A car drives past a pile of debris from Hurricane Helene flooding, along a street that had already begun flooding from rain ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Milton, in Gulfport, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Florida bracing for battering from Hurricane Milton, not relying on FEMA

A hurricane "a whisker shy" of a Category 5 storm is set to hit the state's west coast as early as Wednesday night, Gov. Ron DeSantis warned residents, urging people in targeted areas to evacuate and promising a rapid emergency cleanup and rescue response that won't rely on the federal government.

October 9, 2024
Duke Energy project manager Tiger Yates, bottom center, walks among the hundreds of lineman trucks staged, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. at The Villages, Fla. in preparation for Hurricane Milton. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

Harris, DeSantis clash as hurricane season gets political

One of the most dangerous hurricanes to impact the state is expected to make landfall here Wednesday, and Gov. Ron DeSantis had no time for politics, rejecting a phone call from Vice President Kamala Harris as she scrambles to improve her image as a leader after the federal government's much-criticized response to Hurricane Helene.

October 8, 2024
Dominick Gucciardo walks to his home in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Pensacola, N.C. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

As Helene victims wait, FEMA funds run dry from illegal immigrant aid

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is out of money as it scrambles to help flood-ravaged areas of Georgia and North Carolina. Stranded residents are begging for help and reporting that the federal government has yet to show up or provide any aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

October 3, 2024