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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The Trump administration has asked a federal judge to halt the publication of John Bolton's upcoming book, accusing the former national security adviser of not getting the proper clearance.
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The plan follows the death of George Floyd — a black man killed last month in police custody — which sparked international unrest regarding U.S. law enforcement's treatment of black people.
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The CDC developed detailed rules for child care centers, schools, camps, restaurants, churches and mass transit. The White House coronavirus task force said the draft guidance went too far.
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The current coronavirus guidelines that are set to expire Thursday will not be extended as more governors begin steps to reopen their economies.
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President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to ensure plants keep running. Workers have said they need more protection after illnesses and deaths on the line.
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At issue: test distribution versus test completion. The vice president said his statement in March about 4 million tests referred to test distribution.
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Vice President Pence is road-testing the political and logistical hurdles the White House faces as it looks to try to return to some kind of new political normal.
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Leading former federal health officials Andy Slavitt and Scott Gottlieb are leading a call for $46 billion for specific measures in a next coronavirus aid package to safely reopen the economy.
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President Trump said he plans to "temporarily suspend immigration into the United States," in an attempt to protect American workers from the coronavirus' economic toll.
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Trump says he'll temporarily suspend immigration because of the coronavirus. There aren't many details but the administration has been using the pandemic to justify more restrictions on immigration.
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We travel with Vice President Mike Pence to Colorado to see how social distancing changed a military college graduation. He gave Saturday's commencement address at the Air Force Academy.
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White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to see how wage rates for immigrant farmworkers can be reduced. Critics say doing so will hurt all workers.