Ian Kullgren is a Washington-based reporter for Bloomberg covering President Donald Trump’s seismic changes to the federal government. He has covered the White House, labor, and the U.S. jobs landscape during and after the pandemic.

His work appears in Bloomberg Law, Tax, Government, and the Bloomberg Terminal. He is also a semi-regular guest on Bloomberg TV.

Ian was previously a reporter for POLITICO, where he covered employment and immigration policy during the first Trump administration.

He started his career at The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, where he covered regional politics. He was part of a team that covered a 41-day standoff with armed militants at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, earning the Associated Press Media Editors’ grand prize for news reporting in 2017.

Ian graduated from Michigan State University, where he edited the student newspaper and studied public policy in his spare time.