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Katy Stech Ferek

Washington, D.C.

Congress Reporter at The Wall Street Journal

Covering Congress for @WSJ. With past policy smarts on environment/climate, national security, trade and financial hardship. Minnesotan, mil spouse, mom.

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  • ​​Democrats Seek Trading Probes After Trump’s Tariff U-Turn

    1 week ago | wsj.com | Jasmine Li |Lindsay Wise |Katy Stech Ferek

    Democrats say their concerns center on Trump’s comments and actions Wednesday, even as they have produced no evidence of illicit trading. That morning, shortly after the market opened, Trump posted on X: “BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and better than ever before!” A few minutes later, he wrote: “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT”Hours later, he announced a pause in some tariffs, igniting the Wall Street rally.

  • Democrats Call for Investigation Into Possible Stock Trades Tied to Tariff Move

    1 week ago | wsj.com | Katy Stech Ferek

    Democrats in Congress on Thursday called for investigations into whether people close to the Trump administration profited by using non-public information to make trades in the hours before President Trump’s tariff policy change. Democratic Sens.

  • Democrats Bet Casting Trump as Agent of Chaos Will Boost Their Fortunes

    1 week ago | wsj.com | John McCormick |John Mccormick |Katy Stech Ferek

    Democrats have struggled since their election drubbing in November to find a successful formula to challenge President Trump. After he put the country on an economic roller coaster this week, they are betting voters may be getting woozy. Some in the party say their efforts to win back independent voters could get a boost from a simple dynamic: allowing Trump to do political damage to himself and the Republican brand with his unpredictable and chaotic governing style.

  • House Democrats Pressure Republicans on Tariffs

    2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Katy Stech Ferek

    House Democrats on Tuesday introduced a resolution to cancel the national emergency justification for Trump’s sweeping tariffs on U.S. imports proposed last week, one of few tools at their disposal to pressure Republican colleagues on the issue. “These tariffs are nothing more than a sales tax on American families, driving up prices on everything from groceries to cars,” Rep.

  • Jeffries Bashes Tariffs. Other Democrats See a Role for Tariffs in Economic Policy

    2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Katy Stech Ferek

    House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) told Democrats on Saturday that they are in a position to capitalize politically on President Trump’s tariffs, saying that the president’s new levies “are sending markets into free fall and resulting in one of the largest tax increases in our nation’s history.” His comments came in a letter he sent with Rep.

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Katy Stech Ferek
Katy Stech Ferek @KatyStech
1 Apr 25

Wait, how do you fix a broken whisper spot? https://t.co/yzf2N2JTD8

Katy Stech Ferek
Katy Stech Ferek @KatyStech
12 Nov 24

Will House Republicans be the weakest link in cementing Trump policies? Some predict they'll pull it together, noting Trump's influence. “The speaker of the House has a stick, the president of the United States has a howitzer,” one lawmaker told me. https://t.co/p8ACdGfx33

Katy Stech Ferek
Katy Stech Ferek @KatyStech
2 Aug 24

RT @TimJHanrahan: Swapped in a new Evan poster today in the DC @wsj office https://t.co/mIIplAzadh