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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This was Biden's first visit as president to honor dead service members and comfort their relatives. The fallen service members included 11 Marines, an Army soldier and a member of the Navy. -
Speaking about the Taliban's ousting of the U.S.-backed Afghan government, Biden acknowledged, "The truth is this did unfold more quickly than we anticipated." -
President Biden has yet to respond to the news of the Taliban taking over Afghanistan — as helicopters evacuated U.S. personnel from the Embassy in Kabul. Biden has no public events scheduled Monday.
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During the campaign, President Biden said he'd put U.S. diplomacy back in the "hands of genuine professionals," but only one of his ambassadors to a foreign capital has been confirmed. -
Administration officials describe the plan as "the first of its kind," but much of the proposal is expanding on previous efforts that have done little to curb migration from Central America.
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The new measure would vastly expand the number of officers who can determine whether a migrant at the southern U.S. border is eligible for asylum. -
President Biden, who spoke Monday to the nation's largest Latino civil rights group, is under pressure to make good on his promises to fix the immigration system. -
Democrats have essentially no wiggle room if they want to pass their newly unveiled $3.5 trillion budget plan along party lines. And already some Democrats are voicing concerns.
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Widespread protests across Cuba have revealed political challenges President Biden faces as he seeks to support the demonstrations without hurting their cause — or his own political interest. -
President Biden and a bipartisan group of senators now have an infrastructure deal. But there's a long road ahead: Lawmakers must also pass other parts of his economic agenda.
