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 Biden is hosting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for what was once known as the "Three Amigos" summit — the first one since 2016.
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President Biden hosts Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for the first "Three Amigos" summit since 2016.
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The leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States will meet in Washington, the first such summit in five years. They're expected to discuss topics like COVID-19, climate change and migration.
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President Biden held a virtual summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to go over some of the thorniest issues between the two countries. They gave no hint of Trump-era tariffs being dropped.
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Government departments are scrambling to figure out how to spend the $1 trillion in the infrastructure package. Some will go to existing grant programs, while others need to be created from scratch.
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President Biden is wrapping his time at the climate summit in Glasgow. Now he'll come back to face lawmakers in his own party who have balked at the scope of his proposals, including those on climate.
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President Biden has arrived in Rome for the G20 summit. Ahead of the summit, Biden meets with several world leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron and Pope Francis.
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We look at President Biden's push to get his trimmed-down spending plan past Congress, as two Democratic lawmakers continue to oppose key provisions.
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The Biden administration has been criticized for hoarding COVID vaccines when millions of people around the world are unvaccinated. Now they're looking at how to help finance plants overseas. -
President Biden addressed ongoing supply chain problems, as major retailers warn of shortages and price hikes during the upcoming holiday season. -
The White House has put former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell in charge of helping oversee efforts to resettle Afghan refugees.
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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Yale professor Alicia Schmidt Camacho and NPR correspondent Franco Ordoñez about Latin American migration into the U.S. and government policies trying to address it.
