White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Thursday afternoon as the government shutdown stretches into a fourth week, after a 12th vote on a stopgap funding bill failed a

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Friday afternoon on the government shutdown as the Trump administration prepares for mass layoffs amid the lapse in funding. President Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought signaled earlier this week that mass layoffs were imminent as the Senate debates dueling

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief the press at 1:00 p.m. on Monday. The briefing comes during a busy week for the White House as President Donald Trump awaits decisions from Israeli and Hamas negotiators in Egypt and as legal disputes play out over National Guard presence in Portland and Chicago.

The White House pressed Navy officials to launch 2,000-pound live bombs instead of dummy explosives during a recent military demonstration for the service’s 250th anniversary celebration that President Donald Trump attended.