Jacqueline Alemany

Washington, D.C.

Congressional Investigations Reporter

Education: Harvard University, BA IN Government

Jacqueline Alemany is a Congressional Investigations reporter for The Washington Post. Previously, she was founder and co-author of The Early 202, The Post's flagship early morning newsletter featuring news critical to the nation’s many power centers, including the White House, Capitol Hill, government agencies, the Pentagon and more. Alemany is also an on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC. Alemany joined The Washington Post in 2018 after six years at CBS News, where she covered the Trump White House. Before that, she was a digital journalist on the 2016 presidential campaign trail. She
Latest from Jacqueline Alemany

Feds increase security for Jan. 6 in effort to prevent Capitol attack repeat

The decision will give the next electoral count — scheduled for Jan. 6, 2025 — the same level of security accorded to presidential inaugurations and political conventions.

September 11, 2024
Supporters of President Donald Trump stand outside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

Why some disabled workers make $1 an hour

Across the country thousands of disabled workers are making less than a dollar an hour. Today, an investigation into the federal program that allows workers to earn subminimum wages, its lack of oversight and why so many families still support it.

September 3, 2024

Biden administration moves to end subminimum wages for disabled workers

A decades-long fight over whether people with disabilities should be paid less than minimum wage is set to come to a head this month.

September 3, 2024
Kyesha Owens works in the cleaning department at the Eisenhower Center in Milwaukee on June 4.

Why some U.S. disabled workers are making less than a dollar an hour

A federal statute of the Fair Labor Standards Act has allowed companies to pay workers with disabilities less than minimum wage since 1938.

August 30, 2024
From left to right, Snehal Pardiwala, Claudia Gomez, Andre Heath, María Castellanos and Alex Estine work on different contract jobs, including for hearing aid manufacturer Oticon, at Pathways to Independence.

Fight over pay for people with disabilities may erupt next month

A rule the Biden administration is considering could ignite a war over the future of the decades-old 14(c) subminimum wage law, which allows certain employers to pay disabled workers far less than minimum wage.

August 30, 2024

Some disabled workers in the U.S. make pennies per hour. It’s legal.

Under Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, employers can legally pay disabled workers subminimum wages. Many workers never move to higher-paying jobs.

August 30, 2024

Amid DNC protests, Jewish Democrats seek to claim political home on the left

And many believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is — and will be — a friend to Israel.

August 22, 2024
Massachusetts delegate Candy Glazer sits inside the United Center before the start of the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (Joel Angel Juarez for The Washington Post)

House GOP accuses Biden of impeachable conduct with no direct evidence

House Republicans released the report from their impeachment probe of President Biden without finding any direct evidence he was involved in his family’s business dealings when he was vice president.

August 19, 2024
President Joe Biden returns to the White House after attending a campaign event in Maryland with Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday.

House Republicans launch probe into Tim Walz’s relationship to China

The House Oversight Committee, led by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), is turning its recent scrutiny from President Joe Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate.

August 16, 2024
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), speaks at a campaign event in Las Vegas on Saturday.

FBI searches Rep. Ogles’s phone as part of campaign finance probe, lawyer says

G. Kline Preston IV, the Tennessee-based lawyer representing Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tenn.), said the search warrant was limited, asking only for the congressman’s phone.

August 6, 2024
The FBI seized the cellphone of Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tenn.) in a campaign finance probe. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post)