Washington – White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made her debut in the briefing room on Tuesday and promised to speak frequently with the news media and open up the briefing room to podcasters and social media influencers.

Trump 2024 presidential campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt made her debut as White House's youngest press secretary on Tuesday.

When Leavitt, 27, walks out into the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room on Tuesday, she'll be the youngest press secretary to do so, since Ronald Ziegler, who held the title in former President Ronald Reagan's White House at age 29.

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

All illegal immigrants that have been arrested by immigration authorities in recent days are criminal, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

Officials said the decision to halt loans and grants was necessary to ensure spending complies with recent executive orders.

The White House received more than 7,000 press pass applications after Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, revealed that “new media” would be welcomed to a briefing room in the West Wing. The influx of applications came just one day after Leavitt announced the president’s desire to engage with “the new media landscape,

Donald Trump 2.0 is, so far, very much the same as his first go around. But eight years after he was last sworn into office, the new president is emboldened, far more experienced and surrounded by a very different team.

A first-term House Democrat is attacking White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on X after she sought to clarify a White House memo rescinding an earlier policy statement on President Donald Trump's federal funding order.

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