Franco Ordoñez
Franco Ordoñez is a White House Correspondent for NPR's Washington Desk. Before he came to NPR in 2019, Ordoñez covered the White House for McClatchy. He has also written about diplomatic affairs, foreign policy and immigration, and has been a correspondent in Cuba, Colombia, Mexico and Haiti.
Ordoñez has received several state and national awards for his work, including the Casey Medal, the Gerald Loeb Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism. He is a two-time reporting fellow with the International Center for Journalists, and is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and the University of Georgia.
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President Trump was the first president ever to attend a Superbowl. We catch up on the news from his pregame interview, including his plans to review U.S. military spending.
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Trump said he and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu talked Tuesday about relocating Palestinians and leveling Gaza, which he suggested could be the "Riviera of the Middle East" under U.S. ownership. -
The White House says the federal employees union is doing its members a disservice by urging them not to resign with the promise of administrative leave until September. -
As President Trump seeks to remake the federal government and push the limits of executive power, nearly all of the programs funded by USAID have been halted.
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We look at a chaotic week in politics, with the Trump administration attempting a federal funding freeze and a buyout for two million federal workers.
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What mattered, what didn't and what changed in the second week of the Trump administration.
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Two weeks into office, President Trump is enacting policies outlined in the conservative policy agenda Project 2025, from which he had distanced himself on the campaign trail.
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President Trump is threatening sanctions and tariffs on Russia if Putin doesn't reach an agreement to end the war in Ukraine. Some are surprised, considering Trump's affinity for the Russian leader.
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A federal judge has paused a sweeping new plan from the Trump administration to halt categories of federal spending. -
It is unclear how much impact economic penalties would have on the Russian government, since they already face various sanctions imposed by the previous administration.
