White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced significant changes to White House briefings to allow for influencers and podcast hosts to apply for media credentials.

Karoline Leavitt’s debut White House press briefing comments about condoms and the truth also drew intense scrutiny.

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

Karoline Leavitt is the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary and was Donald Trump’s national press secretary during much of the 2024 presidential race.

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.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made her briefing debut on Tuesday, where she sparred with reporters over a federal freeze on grants and made clear that President Donald Trump himself will be the administration's main messenger.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was pressed for answers about Team Trump's idea for a spending freeze. It didn't go especially well.