Kyle Cheney is a Congress reporter for POLITICO

Cheney joined the Congress team after covering the 2016 presidential election on POLITICO's politics team. He covered the Republican primary field with a focus on the national GOP, the Republican National Convention and the internal machinations of the party as it adjusted to the emergence of Donald Trump.

Cheney came to POLITICO in June 2012 to cover health care and spent two years covering the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and its political implications. He also covered the 2014 midterms for POLITICO's Campaign Pro. He joined POLITICO after five years reporting on Massachusetts government and politics for the State House News Service, an independent wire service in Boston.

Cheney, a New York native, graduated from Boston University in 2007 with a journalism degree after a semester as editor of BU’s independent student paper, The Daily Free Press.