DeSantis campaign shedding 38 staffers in bid to stay competitive through fall
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is shaving more than a third of his campaign staff from the payroll in a move designed to keep him financially solvent into the fall.
Caitlin Huey-Burns is a political correspondent for CBS News based in Washington, D.C.
She joined CBS News in 2018 as a political reporter for the streaming network, now CBS News 24/7, and played a key role in the outlet's coverage of the 2020 presidential campaign. She secured interviews with every Democratic candidate running for president, including a news breaking interview with Kamala Harris and a wide-ranging sit-down interview with Joe Biden on the eve of his Super Tuesday sweep.
Huey-Burns anchored an innovative series on voting rights and access for CBS News Streaming called "America's Right to Vote," filing reports from around the country and anchoring a voting rights special from the campaign trail that included interviews with key secretaries of state. She covered Election Night from the critical battleground of Pennsylvania, reporting for a week outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia as officials counted votes. And she has continued reporting on voting access since, with incisive deep dives into states changing their election laws.
Her reports for the broadcast have provided texture and context to politics, including how women lawmakers uniquely shaped the legislative response to the pandemic; how secretaries of state enlisted the help of sports teams and arenas for the 2020 elections; how "selfie lines" influenced the political campaigns; and the history and significance of presidential retreats.
Huey-Burns was the first CBS journalist to file for TikTok and produced behind-the-scenes videos from the campaign trail. She is also a fill-in anchor for the CBS News 24/7 show "America Decides" (formerly "Red & Blue").
Huey-Burns has been ahead of the curve in covering the infant formula shortage as a key political issue and reporting on the lack of resources for pregnant women in states with the most restrictive abortion laws.
Before joining CBS News, Huey-Burns was a reporter for RealClearPolitics, where she covered national politics and Capitol Hill. She was featured in a New York Times profile of millennial reporters covering the 2016 campaign, and the Huffington Post highlighted her campaign reporting as an example of ways young reporters can revitalize political journalism.
She graduated from John Carroll University with a degree in Political Science and English and earned a master's degree from Georgetown University. She lives in Washington with her husband and their son.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is shaving more than a third of his campaign staff from the payroll in a move designed to keep him financially solvent into the fall.
A CBS News investigation found the effort being heavily funded by GOP megadonor Richard Uihlein.
As labor and delivery units across the state shutter, one doctor has started a program to help train emergency workers to deliver babies.
Black women have the highest maternal mortality rate in the U.S., almost three times the rate for White women. In general, the U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world.
The only five women in the South Carolina Senate, who call themselves the "sister senators," sat down with CBS News to discuss their opposition to the state's six-week abortion ban.
The communications director for the embattled GOP congressman said he "never took one point of professional advice."
CBS News is first to report DeCasper's role. She would be the first woman of color to run a GOP presidential campaign.
The senator had deflected questions regarding whether he has indicated to former President Donald Trump that he would run.
The investigation began when another man was caught removing a skimming device from a Seattle ATM.
The embattled freshman lawmaker's work for a company that allegedly orchestrated a Ponzi scheme attracted scrutiny from federal regulators.
A veteran has alleged that Santos helped him raise $3,000 for his dying dog through Santos' pet charity, but the veteran said he never got the money.
The Republican is facing growing calls to resign as stories about his past continue to surface.
As the New York Times first reported, the soon-to-be GOP congressman's claims of employment at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup could not be verified, and the college he said he attended also says it has no record of him.
Fertility treatment advocates fear IVF and other technologies may be endangered by the fall of Roe v. Wade and state measures with vague language and so-called personhood bills.
But former President Donald Trump has disparaged early voting and voting by mail.