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 Trump signed a bill to fund the government through the end of January, ending the shutdown that has dragged on for six weeks. Missouri and Kansas Republicans voted in favor of the bill, while Democrats had voted against. -
At a time when Congressional Republicans are generally opting against town halls, Kansas City-area Rep. Mark Alford is embarking on a four-day, 15-stop tour to meet with constituents. Some of his events have been met with contentious protests. -
A federal judge has paused a sweeping new plan from the Trump administration to halt categories of federal spending. -
Republican and Democratic strategists are recalibrating how much of an issue abortion rights will play in the midterm elections after a decisive vote by Kansans in favor of abortion rights. -
The far-right internet only began to obsess about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson after a series of misleading tweets from Sen. Josh Hawley echoed themes used by conspiracy theorists. -
In a House hearing Thursday, the Missouri congresswoman shared for the first time publicly her personal story of her sexual assault and subsequent abortion as a teenager. -
The vote is an attempt by Democrats to protect abortion rights as states set increasingly restrictive laws. But the bill, co-sponsored by Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids, faces dim prospects in the Senate. -
After intense pressure from progressives, the CDC has announced a more limited eviction moratorium days after an earlier freeze on evictions expired. -
Emails released by the House Oversight Committee show Trump pressuring his acting attorney general even before William Barr stepped down from the position. -
The legislation, which had near-unanimous support from the Senate, now goes to President Biden's desk for his signature.
