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.
Many Republicans here love former President Donald Trump, but his legal troubles have them eyeing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a top alternative in the upcoming GOP caucus.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis began his quest to end former President Donald Trump's reign over the Republican Party, launching his White House bid on Tuesday in a packed church west of Des Moines, Iowa, where he gave voters a close-up look at the Republican alternative to the former president.
The 2024 Republican primary clash between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis begins this week in Iowa, where pro-life, grassroots conservative voters offer Mr. DeSantis an opportunity to take a significant bite out of Mr. Trump's hefty polling lead.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his presidential campaign in a video and press release Wednesday, but his effort to jump into the race live on Twitter stalled when the platform's server crashed.
Gov. Ron DeSantis became an official 2024 presidential hopeful on Wednesday, filing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission declaring his candidacy for the Republican nomination.
Special counsel John Durham's final report did not include interviews with top Justice Department officials who were deeply involved in launching the Trump-Russia collusion investigation and two senators want to know why.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' launch of his long-anticipated bid for the White House is poised to shake up the 2024 GOP primary field that has been dominated by former President Donald Trump.
Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to launch his long-anticipated presidential bid on Wednesday in an event on Twitter with Elon Musk, The Washington Times confirmed.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is announcing his candidacy this week for the Republican presidential nomination, will need to quickly prove he's a formidable opponent against former President Donald Trump.
Nearly seven years after Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election to Donald Trump, a new report provides details about her campaign's prominent role in creating a narrative that Mr. Trump was colluding with the Russians.
President Biden likely used his position as vice president in the Obama White House to pad a retirement plan by setting up family members as highly paid business consultants overseas, according to the top House investigator pursuing the Bidens' alleged influence peddling.
House and Senate negotiators working to secure a deal to raise the nation's borrowing limit are weighing a plan that could eventually give the federal government expanded authority to green-light an extended phalanx of interstate transmission lines for wind, solar and hydropower.
Democrats aren't buying a yearslong, independent investigation's findings that the FBI lacked "actual evidence" to justify its probe into whether Donald Trump colluded with Russians to win the 2016 presidential election.
A House committee will vote as soon as next week to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents related to the Biden administration's abrupt U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan nearly two years ago.
The Environmental Protection Agency's new rules for natural gas and coal-fired power plants are aimed at eliminating nearly all of their carbon emissions by 2040, but those who provide and distribute the nation's power say it will undermine the grid by forcing plants that generate most of the nation's electricity to shut down or use less reliable green sources.
Robert Kennedy Jr., the unconventional Democrat siphoning double-digit Democratic support away from President Biden ahead of the 2024 election, won't rule out building a wall along the southern border if it means stopping the flow of illegal immigrants that have poured into the U.S. on Mr. Biden's watch.
The FBI does not deny it has a whistleblower document alleging then-Vice President Joseph R. Biden engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national. But it won't turn the document over to Congress.
Democrats were at one time laser-focused on public corruption allegations that involved former President Donald Trump -- but not when it comes to President Biden.
President Biden's family was pocketing millions of dollars from foreign nationals in corruption-riddled Romania while he was vice president in the Obama administration, bank records show.