Daniel Desrochers is an international trade reporter at POLITICO, with a focus on the Trump administration's sweeping tariffs. 

Amid a turbulent moment in trade policy, Desrochers’s reporting seeks to shine a light on how trade policy resonates with farmers, small businesses, auto workers and other key constituencies across the nation. 

Desrochers has a fine-tuned political radar with a deep understanding of how lawmakers think and the way power dynamics in Washington resonate throughout the country. He covered Congress, the White House and federal courts for the Kansas City Star with a focus on issues that mattered to Missouri and Kansas, chronicling the changing Republican Party. 

A graduate of the University of Arizona, he previously reported for the Lexington Herald-Leader and the Charleston Gazette-Mail.