Danielle Kurtzleben
Danielle Kurtzleben is a White House correspondent on NPR's Washington Desk. She appears regularly on the NPR Politics Podcast and other NPR shows.
In her time at NPR, she has covered three presidential elections, from the 2016 Republican primary that Donald Trump went on to win, to Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. Kurtzleben traveled to dozens of Trump rallies and reported live on the ground from the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a would-be assassin shot at Trump. For that reporting, Kurtzleben was part of the team that won an Edgar R. Murrow Award for breaking news radio coverage.
As a White House correspondent, she specializes in covering Trump's economic policies, as well as his administration's political rhetoric.
Kurtzleben covered elections nationwide prior to covering the White House, traveling all over the country to understand the forces that determine how people vote.
She also covered the intersection of gender and politics for much of her time at NPR. Most notably, she carved out a unique niche in observing how politicians use masculinity to try to win elections, particularly the presidency. In addition, she has covered Women's Marches, the 2018 midterms that elected a wave of Democratic women, the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and the backlash to that decision.
Before joining NPR in 2015, Kurtzleben was a correspondent for Vox.com. As part of the site's original reporting team, she covered economics and business news.
Kurtzleben was with U.S. News & World Report for nearly four years prior to Vox.com, where she covered the economy, campaign finance and demographic issues. As associate editor, she launched Data Mine, a data visualization blog on usnews.com.
A native of Titonka, Iowa, Kurtzleben has a bachelor's degree in English from Carleton College. She also holds a master's degree in global communication from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.
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Trump used a prime-time address to outline his objectives for the war and discuss the military's progress to date. He also repeated an earlier claim that fighting could end in two to three weeks. -
Some of President Trump's policies, the latest being the war in Iran, are testing his support among farmers who are being burdened with higher costs. -
President Trump isn't always clear about his policies and why he favors them. That's where Vice President JD Vance comes in. -
Focusing on political victories during his State of the Union address, Trump gave himself and Republicans high marks while scolding Democrats for their stances on the economy and immigration. -
The U.S. president is in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. President Trump's push to acquire Greenland has turned to antagonism toward allies in recent days. -
The Department of Justice has been publicly posting files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation since Friday. -
Trump broke little new ground, restating messages his White House has been pushing for months: that economic problems can be blamed on Joe Biden, and that his second term has been a massive success. -
Nearly a year into his second term, President Trump is facing growing skepticism as Americans feel persistent cost-of-living pressures despite his efforts to defend the strength of the economy. -
The payments are targeted at row crop farmers in the wake of this year's tariff hikes. -
President Trump says the government will distribute checks to Americans from tariff revenue. Here's what that could mean. -
The phrase appeals more to several demographics that strongly align with Trump, says Republican strategist Frank Luntz, including older voters, for whom he suggests it signals "a more simple past." -
President Trump is in the United Kingdom for a rare second state visit that includes pageantry, policy and protests.
