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Ximena Bustillo

Reporter, Washington Desk

Ximena Bustillo is a multi-platform reporter at NPR covering politics out of the White House and Congress on air and in print.

Before joining NPR, she was an award-winning food and agriculture policy reporter and newsletter author at POLITICO covering immigration, climate, labor, supply chain and equity issues.

Bustillo got her start in journalism at the Idaho Statesman where she helped spearhead the state's Spanish-language coronavirus news coverage through articles and public web forums.

She is a graduate of Boise State University.

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Tuesday

Trump's $250 million civil fraud trial is underway in New York

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Monday

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How Congress narrowly avoided a shutdown; Trump's NY trial to begin on Monday

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Saturday

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Tuesday

Thousands of federal firefighters face a looming pay cut. How much is up to Congress?

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Republicans and others watch the broadcast at the official watch party of the Republican presidential candidates debate at The Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif., on Aug. 23. Leonard Ortiz/Getty Images hide caption

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Monday

In this Sept. 19, 2021 file photo, flames burn up a tree as part of the Windy Fire in the Trail of 100 Giants grove in Sequoia National Forest, Calif. Noah Berger/AP hide caption

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Thousands of federal firefighters face a looming pay cut. How much is up to Congress

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Monday

People rally to end fossil fuels in New York Sunday ahead of the 78th United Nations General Assembly and Climate Ambition Summit. Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Young people think climate change is a top issue but when they vote, it's complicated

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Friday

Hunter Biden is indicted on felony gun charges weeks after a plea deal fell apart

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Thursday

Hunter Biden is indicted on felony gun charges

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Monday

Left to right: Alabama Republican Party Chair John Wahl, 37, and North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton, 25. Quentin Renard Gunn and Eamon Queeney for NPR hide caption

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Thursday

John Wahl, 37, is the youngest GOP state party leader in the country. He also runs a business as a butterfly farmer in Athens, Ala. "This is me, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, in his natural habitat," he told NPR during a visit to his butterfly farm. Quentin Renard Gunn for NPR hide caption

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This butterfly farmer wants to strengthen the Republican Party's hold on Alabama

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Wednesday

In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, caribou from the Porcupine caribou herd migrate onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP hide caption

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Anderson Clayton, 25, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, is the youngest state party chair in the country. She wants to help Democrats reach rural and young voters. Eamon Queeney for NPR hide caption

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A 25-year-old from a small town leads North Carolina's Democratic Party toward 2024

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Friday

From left to right: Former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley during the first Republican presidential primary debate in Milwaukee on Wednesday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Climate change made it in the GOP debate. Some young Republicans say that's a win

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Tuesday

Clockwise: Tim Scott, Ron DeSantis, Asa Hutchinson, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Doug Burgum, Chris Christie, Mike Pence Jacquelyn Martin/AP; Octavio Jones/Getty Images; Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg; Mark Makela/Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Dan Keock/Reuters; Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption

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Wednesday

Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a political rally while campaigning for the GOP nomination in Erie, Pa., in July. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images hide caption

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Friday

Paola Mendoza, the daughter of farmworkers, says her parents didn't want her to join them in the fields. She's now in college, studying to be a teacher. Mike Kane for NPR hide caption

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As these farmworkers' children seek a different future, farms look for workers abroad

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Thursday

A worker harvests cherries in the early hours of the morning on a farm near Sunnyside, Wash., on June 14. Mike Kane for NPR hide caption

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America's farms are desperate for labor. Foreign workers bring relief and controversy

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