Barbara Sprunt
Barbara Sprunt is a producer on NPR's Washington desk, where she reports and produces breaking news and feature political content. She formerly produced the NPR Politics Podcast and got her start in radio at as an intern on NPR's Weekend All Things Considered and Tell Me More with Michel Martin. She is an alumnus of the Paul Miller Reporting Fellowship at the National Press Foundation. She is a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., and a Pennsylvania native.
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The bill cites President Trump's attempts to intervene in the vote counting of the Nov. 3 election, as well as his language to supporters in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6. Read the resolution. -
With nine days left in the Trump presidency, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats are forging ahead with plans to remove Trump from office. -
The House speaker said she had already made her opinion known to Vice President Pence, and if he and the Cabinet don't act, "Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment." -
President Trump's signature, even after his bashing of the legislation, puts an end to uncertainty over when millions of Americans will receive the economic relief provided in the massive bill. -
"At long last, we have the bipartisan breakthrough the country has needed," says Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. -
With lawmakers facing a mounting year-end to-do list, a deal on a new coronavirus relief package continues to be elusive for Congress. -
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued four states that Joe Biden won, claiming their changes to election procedures during the pandemic violated federal law. -
The lawsuit argued a 2019 state law authorizing universal mail-in voting was unconstitutional and that all ballots cast by mail in the general election in Pennsylvania should be thrown out. -
The president-elect called for cooperation among Americans of all stripes, saying, "Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end here and now." -
Americans have cast 93 million early ballots as of Sunday afternoon, putting the 2020 election on track for historic levels of voter turnout.
