Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president would open the briefing room to bloggers, podcasters and social-media influencers.

The grant pause is perhaps most similar to a federal government shutdown, when a congressional impasse on spending legislation delays federal payments for some state and local services.

Medicaid recipients on Tuesday reported an outage that has them worried about their health insurance coverage.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Social Security, Medicare and food stamps would not be affected by the decision to freeze federal aid. NBC News’ Sahil Kapur reports on the Trump administration’s first White House press briefing and whether Medicaid could be among the programs affected.

Good ol’ Dave was a high school buddy and not a very good poker player. After losing hand after hand, one of us would suggest he bluff every now and then.

Karoline Leavitt used her first briefing in the role to warn veteran reporters that they were increasingly irrelevant.

The website that states use to get Medicaid payments from the federal government is down, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took to social media to clarify that state Medicaid portals are still being processed despite any outages.

WASHINGTON— Press secretary Karoline Leavitt made her debut in the White House briefing room, where she defended President Donald Trump's plans to slash federal spending and its mass deportation efforts.

The online system for federal health funding warned of delays due to executive orders after the Trump administration announced a freeze.

Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary, made her debut in the briefing room Tuesday, saying that podcasters and social media influencers could apply to participate in future briefings.