Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president would open the briefing room to bloggers, podcasters and social-media influencers.
Medicaid recipients on Tuesday reported an outage that has them worried about their health insurance coverage.
The online system for federal health funding warned of delays due to executive orders after the Trump administration announced a freeze.
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.
The White House Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday rescinded a memo that froze federal grants and loans and created widespread confusion this week.
On Monday, the White House Office of Management and Budget put out a memorandum, which is not supposed to carry the weight of an appropriation passed into law by Congress, telling federal agencies to stop for now distributing legally appropriated money for active grants and loans.
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network CEO Jim Klocke said that the news was a relief for nonprofits worried about cutting employee hours and layoffs
Give Trump some credit. He has no interest in faking empathy, as Biden did so ineptly. In Trump’s playbook, empathy is a weakness, even amid tragedy. Instead, each disaster is an opportunity to go on the attack,
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.
Reacting to reports that President Trump rescinded his federal funds freeze order, Congresswoman Lori Trahan warned "the fight is far from over."