Mark Alfred is an award-winning politics reporter covering the second Trump administration and the midterm elections.

He is a UC Santa Barbara graduate, where he served as an editor of the student newspaper — winning Best News Series Statewide at the California College Media Awards two years in a row and earning the George Obern Award for Excellence by Chancellor Henry T. Yang for “outstanding writing and reporting.”

Mark covered the Biden administration, Trump campaign and congressional happenings first at the Daily Beast, then for NOTUS as a White House reporter and fellow.

His exclusive reporting during Trump 2.0 shed light on conversations inside the administration and various agencies as the president and DOGE embarked on a radical reshaping of the federal government.