Deirdre Walsh
Deirdre Walsh is the congress editor for NPR's Washington Desk.
Based in Washington, DC, Walsh manages a team of reporters covering Capitol Hill and political campaigns.
Before joining NPR in 2018, Walsh worked as a senior congressional producer at CNN. In her nearly 18-year career there, she was an off-air reporter and a key contributor to the network's newsgathering efforts, filing stories for CNN.com and producing pieces that aired on domestic and international networks. Prior to covering Capitol Hill, Walsh served as a producer for Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics.
Walsh was elected in August 2018 as the president of the Board of Directors for the Washington Press Club Foundation, a non-profit focused on promoting diversity in print and broadcast media. Walsh has won several awards for enterprise and election reporting, including the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress by the National Press Association, which she won in February 2013 along with CNN's Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash. Walsh was also awarded the Joan Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based Congressional or Political Reporting in June 2013.
Walsh received a B.A. in political science and communications from Boston College.
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Congress faces a Friday deadline to keep federal agencies funded and avoid a partial shutdown, while Democrats push to pass the remainder of President Biden's spending agenda.
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The Build Back Better agenda is the largest expansion of the social safety net in decades. Democrats say they learned from the debate over the Affordable Care Act and are selling their bills sooner. -
With less than a year until the mid-term election, dozens of lawmakers are calling it quits. NPR's Dierdre Walsh explains why.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy delayed a vote on President Biden's spending bill with a record-breaking speech. Democrats now expect to vote on the legislative package Friday.
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The mainly party line vote of 223-207 came after GOP Rep. Gosar posted a video on social media with an animated scene of him murdering Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. -
President Biden signed the bipartisan infrastructure bill into law Monday, surrounded by members of both parties. But some of the Republicans backing the bill face death threats.
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Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon was indicted by a federal grand jury for refusing to cooperate with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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The House passed the trillion-dollar legislation known as the "Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill" and set up another vote for President Biden's "Build Back Better" plan.
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President Biden unveiled a slimmed down spending framework to House Democrats. He discussed the transformative nature of the package, but some major priorities Democrats hoped to include were dropped.
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It does not include progressive priorities like paid family leave or measures to lower the costs of prescription drugs. Still, President Biden thinks it would pass both chambers.
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A Navy report on the arson fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard concludes that there were sweeping failures by commanders, crew members and others that helped fuel the blaze.
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Congress is back and trying to tackle a number of pressing issues before the end of the month, including negotiations over President Biden's infrastructure and social spending packages.
