Luke Garrett
Luke Garrett is an Editor at NPR News.
He produces live special coverage of 2024 primary races and caucuses, among other news events. He also reports on election-related stories and books political guests for All Things Considered, Here & Now and Morning Edition.
Before NPR, Garrett spent three years at WTOP-FM in Washington, D.C., where he worked as a producer, podcast host and reporter. His podcast, The DMV Download, won the 'Best Audio-Podcast Award' from the Chesapeake AP Broadcasters Association. The show was also nominated for a national NAB Marconi Award. He got his professional start in journalism at The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Garrett majored in Physics and Philosophy at the University of San Diego, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of school's student-run newspaper – The USD Vista. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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National Guard members and federal law enforcement officers are patrolling the city as part of President Trump's effort to assert federal control over policing in the District. -
Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Trump has the power to deploy the National Guard, but "none of the conditions exist" for the president to take over the city's police. -
Rep. Robert Garcia is the new top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. At a moment when his party is craving more confrontation with President Trump, he says he's ready to lean into the fray. -
Congress passed the tax cut and spending megabill with President Trump's legislative priorities which includes new tax exemptions for tipped hourly workers. But how will it work? -
GOP leaders hope to have the sweeping bill to President Trump's desk by July 4, but some Senate Republicans are speaking out about what the bill would mean for the debt and Medicaid. -
Watchdog group American Oversight takes Trump administration to court over the alleged withholding of information related to Harvard University's tax-exempt status -
Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which has metastasized to the bone, according to a statement from his personal office. -
The president says a third term is "not something I'm looking to do," and the U.S. economy is in a "transition period." -
Unsanctioned congressional trip comes days after Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia -
Maryland senator calls Abrego Garcia case a 'constitutional crisis,' a Louisiana senator says its a 'screw up'
