White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt issued another hit on the Associated Press (AP) on X, labeling reports that the government fired yet more staff as “fake news”. In response to the news that “one employee said they were harassed on Facebook” by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) “prior to being fired”,

The youngest person to serve as White House press secretary has made her debut in the briefing room, promising to hold briefings often.

We reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office, and you all have the credentials to be here, including the Associated Press, who is in this briefing room today'