Lisa Mascaro
Lisa Mascaro previously covered Congress in Washington, D.C., for the Los Angeles Times. She left in February 2018. A Los Angeles-area native, she has reported across Southern California, edited, traveled the States and worked in Texas. While the Washington correspondent for the Las Vegas Sun, she contributed as the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. An economics and political science graduate of UC Santa Barbara, she also studied in Budapest, Hungary.
Nancy Pelosi defends Baltimore hometown, calls President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a ‘slumlord’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that if President Donald Trump wants to belittle Baltimore as rat-infested, then he should consult with his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, whom she calls a “slumlord.”
Maryland's Steny Hoyer has been eyeing the House's top spot for over a decade. Now he's taking one last shot.
Hoyer has been eying the top spot for more than a decade, living in the shadow of a San Francisco Democrat who has a white-knuckle grip on power. Now, as the party wrestles with its ideological impulses and younger lawmakers push for a generational shift, Hoyer may be looking for one more play.
