White House Briefing

• Biden, Democrats stand by $1,400 stimulus checks for Americans

  White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that U.S. President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats have agreed to move the process swiftly and to make it as bipartisan as possible.

  Politics

  Feb 3, 2021
  
• Donald Trump’s ‘phony’ source was a White House official

  Trump accused The New York Times of inventing a source for a story who, in fact, was a White House official conducting a briefing for reporters under the condition that the official not be named.

  World

  May 26, 2018
  
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• Sean Spicer said in December: free press the difference between ‘a democracy vs. a dictatorship’

  In December, Sean Spicer was on a panel when he said keeping an open channel from the White House to the press is the difference between “a democracy vs. a dictatorship.”

  Politics

  Feb 25, 2017
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• Some media blocked from White House briefing after Donald Trump attacks ‘fake news’ during CPAC speech

  White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer did not schedule his daily press briefing Friday, instead opting for a “gaggle” or “media scrum” with only for a hand-picked selection of news outlets.

  Politics

  Feb 24, 2017