Skip to content
TRENDING:
Donald Trump
Advertisement

Kerry Picket

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

The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington, is photographed on March 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

IRS adopts new way to calculate regulatory burdens

The IRS has adopted the National Taxpayers Union's proposal for calculating the costs of taxpayer compliance, which the low-tax advocates said was a "more realistic method." Published April 13, 2026

Elon Musk flashes his t-shirt that reads "DOGE" to the media as he walks on South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Federal workforce numbers under Trump at lowest levels since 1960s

The federal workforce has shrunk by more than 352,000 employees since President Trump took office last year, through firings, resignations and retirements, according to numbers released from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics through Federal Reserve Economic Data. Published April 10, 2026

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro arrives at The Mar-a-Lago Club, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Palm Beach, Fla., to attend the wedding of White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino and Erin Elmore, the director of Art in Embassies at the U.S. Department of State. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Second Amendment groups rip D.C. U.S. Attorney Pirro over hurting gun rights case

Pro-firearms organizations criticized U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro for trying to set back a key gun rights case after she signed onto a Justice Department brief seeking to revisit a major pro-Second Amendment ruling from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Published April 9, 2026

President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says Iranian leader has asked for ceasefire

President Trump said Wednesday that Iran's president has requested a ceasefire, and said the U.S. will consider the proposal only after Tehran allows shipping in the Strait of Hormuz to "free and clear." Published April 1, 2026