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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President Biden spent the weekend after the debate doing damage control, trying to convince supporters he’s still up to the job. -
We look at the Equality Caucus in the US Congress, which aims to increase representation in elected offices and pass laws protecting the LGBTQ community. (Story first aired on ATC on June 21.)
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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. -
Lawmakers are shifting their sights from legislating to putting forward bills that don't have a political path forward but DO make a political point.
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GOP lawmakers plan to keep antisemitism central to attacks on Democrats -
A season of Congressional hearings on antisemitism on college campuses is winding down as the school year ends but the issue has become an effective political wedge that could endure.
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This comes after a yearlong listening tour by a bipartisan working group in the Senate.
