Kayla Tausche is a Senior Correspondent based in Washington, D.C., covering politics and policy issues through in-depth reporting and news-making interviews.

Tausche previously covered the Biden Administration as a Senior White House Correspondent for the network, where she contributed to coverage of the 2024 presidential campaigns of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. She chronicled Biden’s careful preparations for the CNN presidential debate that ended his campaign - and the months of deliberations among top advisers and donors that followed. Her reporting consistently broke news on President Biden’s domestic policies and White House personnel as well as the White House’s negotiations with world leaders, deliberations on sanctions and tariffs, and responses to geopolitical conflicts. Tausche was part of the CNN team that won an Emmy Award in 2024 for breaking news coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.

Tausche joined CNN after more than a decade at CNBC, most recently serving as anchor and senior White House Correspondent reporting on the Biden administration, Cabinet agencies and elections and filling in as anchor for all CNBC programs. During her eight years covering the White House, she reported on American presidents from five continents.

While at CNBC during the Biden administration, Tausche broke news on the White House’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. sanctions considered against Russia and China, rescue packages crafted to stem bank failures and West Wing negotiations around raising the debt ceiling. Tausche also landed news-making interviews with top officials, including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and United States Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai. West Virginia.

She served as a co-host for CNBC’s 2020 election night coverage and Inauguration Day and, as a correspondent, led coverage of the Biden campaign and contributed to the network’s field coverage of the 2012 and 2016 elections.

During the first Trump administration, Tausche secured exclusive interviews with Vice President Mike Pence, Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin, chief of staff Mark Meadows and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in addition to regularly interviewing foreign leaders and executives from the world’s largest companies. Tausche was at the forefront of reporting on Washington’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and the impact of these policies on Americans. Her reporting on Trump’s healthcare, infrastructure, trade, tax, and budget strategy consistently beat competitors. Her investigations took viewers behind the scenes of the White House’s flawed airport screening program that exposed US customs officers to the coronavirus and pulled back the curtain on a failed deal by the Chinese government to inject $84 billion into the state of West Virginia.

From 2014 to 2017, Tausche co-hosted Squawk Alley, a show focusing on the intersection of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, from the New York Stock Exchange. When she joined CNBC in 2011, she covered Wall Street and its evolution after the 2008 financial crisis.

Tausche began her career with posts at the Associated Press in Brussels and the Financial Times Group in London and New York. An Atlanta native, she graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she published research analyzing media coverage of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from British rule.

She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Washington with her husband and three daughters.