Brian Naylor
NPR News' Brian Naylor is a correspondent on the Washington Desk. In this role, he covers politics and federal agencies.
With more than 30 years of experience at NPR, Naylor has served as National Desk correspondent, White House correspondent, congressional correspondent, foreign correspondent, and newscaster during All Things Considered. He has filled in as host on many NPR programs, including Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and Talk of the Nation.
During his NPR career, Naylor has covered many major world events, including political conventions, the Olympics, the White House, Congress, and the mid-Atlantic region. Naylor reported from Tokyo in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, from New Orleans following the BP oil spill, and from West Virginia after the deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine.
While covering the U.S. Congress in the mid-1990s, Naylor's reporting contributed to NPR's 1996 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for political reporting.
Before coming to NPR in 1982, Naylor worked at NPR Member Station WOSU in Columbus, Ohio, and at a commercial radio station in Maine.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maine.
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With his agency facing continued delivery delays and financial issues, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy will appear before a congressional panel Wednesday. He's working on reform, but some want him out.
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The U.S. Postal Service is overseen by a board of governors, all of whom were appointed by former President Donald Trump. Now there are calls for President Biden to reevaluate the board.
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Alejandro Mayorkas, who would be the first Latino and first immigrant to lead DHS, was previously the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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As federal, Capitol Hill, and D.C. authorities assess the failure to secure the U.S. Capitol, they have to turn to securing President-elect Biden's inaugural festivities.
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The FEC has not been able to operate since July, and there's a lot to do. Complaints against the Trump campaign and Mike Bloomberg are among the cases awaiting action.
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The federal workforce has often been pilloried by President Trump, but still there are far more applicants than there are federal jobs.
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Just before the election, President Trump issued an executive order creating a new category of federal employees, which some worry may politicize the civil service.
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President-elect Biden has begun work on getting his administration in place, but the Trump administration has yet to hand him the keys to begin the transition formally.
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A federal judge ordered the U.S. Postal Service to sweep its facilities for any ballots in North Carolina and Pennsylvania amid reports of ballots left behind or delivered late in some states.
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As the election draws closer, a record number of Americans are voting early. So far, fears about delays in ballots being returned through the mail haven't materialized.