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Susan Ferrechio

Susan Ferrechio

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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

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, of N.Y., right, speaks as Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Ct., left, listens during a news conference on health insurance premiums on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Democrats wanted Maduro gone — until Trump took him out

Democrats ripped into President Trump for taking out Venezuelan dictator and accused narco-terrorist Nicolas Maduro, but many of them have long called for removing the South American dictator and bashed Mr. Trump during his first term for failing to "get rid" of him.

January 5, 2026
This undated photo released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Jeffrey Epstein. (U.S. Department of Justice via AP)

Epstein files reveal at least seven co-conspirators

Federal authorities said 10 people acted as co-conspirators in Jeffrey Epstein's international sex trafficking ring, but they aren't pursuing additional prosecutions and the co-conspirators' names are partially redacted in the latest dump of Epstein files.

December 25, 2025
This undated, redacted photo released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee shows Donald Trump. (House Oversight Committee via AP)

New trove of Epstein files tells tall tales about Trump

Democrats pounced on lurid stories about President Trump detailed in a new round of documents released from sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's criminal file, but the Justice Department warned it's likely all fake.

December 23, 2025
The energy industry is expecting a large uptick in electricity consumption because of the growing use of power-hungry artificial intelligence systems, and lawmakers are looking for ways to prevent the cost burden from hitting ordinary consumers. AI concept file image credit: Blue Andy via Shutterstock.

The AI backlash is getting real

Merriam-Webster's word of the year is "slop," a term that has come to define a growing resistance to all things artificial intelligence -- from massive, energy-hungry data centers to simulated actors and television commercials and an endless stream of online fakery.

December 22, 2025
This redacted photo released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows a framed photograph of Jeffrey Epstein with a person on his lap, documented on Aug. 12, 2019, during a search of his home on Little St. James island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. (U.S. Department of Justice via AP)

Epstein files are posted by Justice Department

The Justice Department Friday began publishing hundreds of thousands of pages from the long-concealed "Epstein files," following months of pressure from both political parties in Congress and many of Epstein's sex-trafficking victims.

December 19, 2025
Defense attorney Greg Skordas, left, speaks before Judge Tony Graf, background, in Provo, Utah, as Tyler Robinson, in monitor at right, accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk, attends the court hearing virtually from prison on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP, Pool, File)

Utah judge to rule on cameras in trial of accused Kirk assassin

Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah man facing the death penalty for allegedly assassinating rising conservative star Charlie Kirk, made his first in-person appearance in a Utah courtroom Thursday ahead of a judge's ruling on cameras in the courtroom.

December 11, 2025