Karoline Leavitt tears into the Washington Post after blatant ‘disdain’ for Trump: Live updates

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt started off her press briefing hot by tearing into the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post for its blatant ‘disdain’ for Donald Trump.

Leavitt commented on reports that The Post is being forced to overhaul its newsroom due to tanking business.

‘It appears that the mainstream media, including The Post, is finally learning that having disdain for more than half of the country who supports this president does not help you sell newspapers. It’s not a very good business model,’ she stated.

President Donald Trump will meet with the CEOs of America’s biggest companies at the White House on Tuesday amid recession and inflation fears.

The president is expected to speak with around 100 CEOs from companies including Apple, JPMorgan Chase and Walmart after the markets dropped 500 points after his shock new tariffs on Canada.

Moment Karoline Leavitt tears into the Washington Post with sarcastic dig

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said she wanted to ‘commend’ the Washington Post for its newsroom reorganization.

Leavitt, who seasons her briefings with attacks on the ‘legacy media,’ needled the paper by pointing at Tuesday’s White House briefing to a report on the overhaul from upstart Axios.

‘It appears that the mainstream media, including the Post, is finally learning that having disdain for more than half of the country who supports this president does not help you sell newspapers,’ she said, calling it ‘not a very good business model.’

Leavitt concluded by calling on a ‘new media’ reporter, who asked her about the tanking stock market amid Trump’s announcement of new tariffs.

Leavitt ‘commends’ Washington Post for overhauling their structure

Senate Democrats wait to see if the bill to avert a government shutdown passes in the House

Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter on Capitol Hill:

Senate Democrats on Tuesday were tight-lipped about how they would vote on a measure to prevent a government shutdown as House Republicans prepared for a vote.

While it was not clear whether GOP Speaker Mike Johnson has the necessary votes, Senate Democratic leaders said they would wait to see what happened in the House.

House Republicans could pass the so-called continuing resolution with a simple majority but have extremely close margins as lawmakers geared up to vote.

However, the bill to extend government funding before Friday’s deadline would need 60 votes in the Senate to pass, so Republicans would need the support of at least some Democrats in the chamber.

Multiple Senate Democrats declined to share how they would vote if it came to the Senate.

Senator Raphael Warnock said Republicans had not asked him for his support and the outcome was theirs.

‘This is their bill, he said. ‘There’s a government shutdown, they’re in control of the House, the Senate and the White House. It’s their shutdown.’

One Democrat who said he would vote for it should it reach the Senate was Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.).

‘I will never vote, or withhold my vote to shut the government down,’ he said. ‘I refuse to burn the village down and to claim to save it.’

But Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said the CR’s passage in the Senate would be up to Democrats. He argued a CR passed last year with bipartisan support, so this one should pass ‘with no difficulty.’

However, there remains frustration among Senate Republicans over the CR. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has criticized it. He did not respond to a question Tuesday over whether he still opposed it.

Other Republicans signaled support for the CR but argued it alone was not good as they look to pass more immigration and defense funding.