How White House Press Secretary PressSec Jen Psaki Gets It Done
Illustration: Lauren Tamaki When White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki stepped into the briefing room for the first time last year, it was seen as a return to a functional relationship between the administration and the press corps. Gone were the days of briefings simply never happening, of insulting journalists and exposing them to Covid-19.
A veteran communications operative, Psaki started her career in her early twenties by knocking on doors with the Iowa Democratic Party, and worked her way up to President Obama’s 2008 campaign. She followed him to the White House, where she spent several years, on and off, as the deputy press secretary, deputy communications director, and, later, communications director. In between, she also had a stint as the State Department’s spokesperson under John Kerry.
Last summer, she said she planned to stay in the role for about a year — but don’t expect her to walk away from the podium just yet. Psaki lives with her husband and two children in the D.C. suburbs. Here is how she gets it done.I get up at 5:15 a.m., sometimes 5:45 a.m.. I have a three and a six year old who — we’re probably enabling them — come into our room in the middle of the night and get into sleeping bags. When I wake up, they’re awake. That’s the best quality time.
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