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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The measure now heads to the Senate, where prospects for quick passage are in doubt ahead of a Friday deadline. A few Republicans have said they'd object to fast-tracking the bill. -
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., recently suggested Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was a suicide bomber. The Islamophobic comments are the latest in a string of racist rhetoric in the House.
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Lawmakers return from the Thanksgiving break to a pileup of critical legislation — to fund the government and avoid a default on the nation's credit limit, plus a $2 trillion spending bill.
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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.
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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.
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President Biden praised the bipartisanship work to craft and pass the bill. But Republicans who supported the measure continue to face blowback.
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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.
