Paletta briefed journalists in September 2021: Budgets, Debts and Deficits.

Damian Paletta is the economics editor at the Washington Post and co-author of the recent New York Times bestseller Nightmare Scenario, about the White House’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Before becoming an editor, he covered White House economic policy for the Post. And before that, he spent 11 years at the Wall Street Journal based in Washington.