Jessica Taylor is a political reporter with NPR based in Washington, DC, covering elections and breaking news out of the White House and Congress. Her reporting can be heard and seen on a variety of NPR platforms, from on air to online. For more than a decade, she has reported on and analyzed House and Senate elections and is a contributing author to the 2020 edition of The Almanac of American Politics and is a senior contributor to The Cook Political Report.
The partial federal government shutdown is sending unpaid workers across the country to food pantries as they struggle to pay essential household bills.…
Police in Kentucky were called to a protest by a group of federal government workers at a field office for Sen. Mitch McConnell.The protestors arrived at…
The partial shutdown of the federal government is affecting families depending on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program program, or SNAP.…