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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Democrats returned to Washington with no clear consensus on whether President Biden should be the party's nominee for president. -
Democrats on Capitol Hill remain divided over doubts about President Biden's fitness for the campaign even as Biden himself says he is not dropping out. -
President Biden spent the weekend after the debate doing damage control, trying to convince supporters he’s still up to the job. -
As pride month celebrations continue, LGBTQ lawmakers are working to expand their ranks in D.C. next year. The Equality PAC — the political arm of the Equality Caucus in the U.S. Congress — is raising millions to boost representation on Capitol Hill. -
Former President Donald Trump met separately with House and Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill delivering speeches aimed at keeping the GOP aligned. -
The number of Americans who are wrongfully detained abroad has increased in the last decade. If they're able to return to the U.S, they face bureaucratic hurdles to getting their lives back on track. -
The speech from Israel's prime minister is likely to be contentious, with some Democratic members of Congress already signaling plans to boycott. -
GOP lawmakers plan to keep antisemitism central to attacks on Democrats -
This comes after a yearlong listening tour by a bipartisan working group in the Senate. -
The House voted overwhelmingly to set aside a motion by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to remove Mike Johnson as speaker.
