{"id":31781,"date":"2025-01-28T21:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/karoline-leavitts-white-house-press-conference-marks-return-to-trump-era-media-relations\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T21:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:03:37","slug":"karoline-leavitts-white-house-press-conference-marks-return-to-trump-era-media-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/karoline-leavitts-white-house-press-conference-marks-return-to-trump-era-media-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Karoline Leavitt\u2019s White House press conference marks return to Trump-era media relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson defended new federal measures and said briefing room would now be open to \u2018new media\u2019 outlets<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/28\/donald-trump-executive-orders-transgender-troops-dei-covid-us-politics-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Trump White House\u2019s 27-year-old press secretary staunchly defended an abrupt freeze on federal grants and proclaimed a new era of aggressive immigration enforcement on Tuesday, marking a confrontational return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Trump<\/a>-era media relations in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">administration<\/a>\u2019s first official briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Karoline Leavitt, the youngest White House press secretary in history, insisted the controversial funding pause set to activate on Tuesday evening would not affect individual benefits like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-social-security\">social security <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/medicare\">Medicare<\/a>, but would target what she called \u201cillegal DEI programs\u201d and the \u201cgreen new scam\u201d initiatives that she claimed waste taxpayer money.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/28\/karoline-leavitt-white-house-press-conference\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson defended new federal measures and said briefing room would now be open to \u2018new media\u2019 outlets US politics live \u2013 latest updates The Trump White House\u2019s 27-year-old press secretary staunchly defended an abrupt freeze on federal grants and proclaimed a new era of aggressive immigration enforcement on Tuesday, marking a confrontational return to Trump-era &#8230; <a title=\"Karoline Leavitt\u2019s White House press conference marks return to Trump-era media relations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/karoline-leavitts-white-house-press-conference-marks-return-to-trump-era-media-relations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Karoline Leavitt\u2019s White House press conference marks return to Trump-era media relations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}