Eric McDaniel
Eric McDaniel edits the NPR Politics Podcast. He joined the program ahead of its 2019 relaunch as a daily podcast.
Since coming to NPR in 2016, McDaniel has worked across NPR's newsmagazine shows as an editor and producer. Most recently, he was planning editor at Up First and helped launch a Saturday version of the program.
A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in English Literature from the University of Virginia.
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Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is responsible for a huge share of intel collected by the U.S. Lawmakers and civil liberties advocates are worried it enables warrantless spying on U.S. citizens. -
Congress returns this week after a two-week recess and they have a long to-do list.
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Dozens of congressional Democrats raised alarm Tuesday over President Trump's rhetoric about Iran. Most Republican lawmakers have been silent. -
While the two candidates have been crisscrossing the swing states for weeks, this is the first time they are literally crossing paths, with each of them holding events in the suburbs north of Detroit. -
Robert Hur is scheduled to testify Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee on his investigation into President Biden's handling of classified documents.
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Congress is supposed to pass the yearly government funding laws by September. Why is the House stuck renewing a 2022 spending plan, and what will Speaker Johnson do about it this time?
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A bipartisan majority of 70 U.S. Senators voted to advance $95 billion in military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The package now heads to the House of Representatives.
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Members of the House have overwhelmingly approved a three-year deal to expand the Child Tax Credit and cut taxes for businesses. How did the normally divided chamber come together to support the bill?
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The Senate is on the verge of a bipartisan deal on immigration reform — one that Donald Trump opposes. Will Republicans defy the GOP's presidential frontrunner?
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Senate negotiators are continuing to work on a bipartisan border deal even after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested the politics around the agreement have shifted.
