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Sen. Van Hollen took a highly publicized trip last week to El Salvador to advocate for Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return.. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Monday after he admitted that his trip to El Salvador to meet a deported illegal immigrant was paid for by taxpayers. Van Hollen took heat from Republicans and one of his constituents, Angel Mom Patty Morin, after he flew to El Salvador in an effort to bring home deported illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the White House maintains is an MS-13 gang member. On "Fox...

The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was replaced Friday, only three days after assuming the role, as his appointment triggered a power struggle between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Elon Musk of the Department of Government Efficiency, the New York Times reported. Gary Shapley was replaced after Bessent complained to President Donald Trump that Musk circumvented Bessent’s office to secure the position for Shapley, the NYT reported. The outlet cited people who said they were familiar with the situation. Shapley was a longstanding IRS agent who accused the Biden administration’s Department of Justice of dragging out its...

WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH THE FRAUDULENT JUSTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT? Barrett sided with loony lib justices and Tren de Aragua gangs last week, after throwing J6 political hostages under the bus last year in another example of her despicable interpretation of the law (where she again sided with vindictive libs). This reporter asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt the administration’s comment on Barrett’s decision at today’s Press Briefing at The White House. See her response HERE:

Karoline Leavitt went off during a press briefing on Tuesday, calling out the hypocrisy in the Democratic Party over President Trump’s tariffs and using their own words against them. Tariffs on trade partners, including 104% tariffs against China, will go into effect tonight at midnight after they retaliated against discounted reciprocal tariffs, and President Trump punched back hard. Trump announced 34% tariffs against China and other “discounted reciprocal” tariffs against dozens of U.S. trading partners during his Make America Wealthy Again Event last Wednesday, April 2. The White House has long referred to this date as “Liberation Day.” Because of...

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Karoline Leavitt and her husband, Nicholas Riccio, met in 2022 before getting married three years later. The White House press secretary, 27, and Riccio, 59, welcomed their son, Nicholas Robert Riccio, nicknamed “Niko,” in July 2024. Six months later, the two wed days before President Donald Trump's second inauguration in January 2025. As the youngest person in history to hold her role, Leavitt is aware of the attention to her age — and her 32-year age gap with her husband. “I mean it's a very atypical love story, but he's incredible,” she shared during a February 2025 appearance on The...

VIDEOHe calls himself George The Dane on TikTok but as you can see, he is really George The Democrat. Up until now he has uploaded little leftwing TDS snippets of himself making political observations. However, nobody can ever take him seriously ever again after his latest epic MELTDOWN. No matter what George The Democrat ever says again in the future, all people will think about is his meltdown no matter what he subsequently says even in the calmest of manners. George The Democrat probably thinks of himself as having a wry wit but, unfortunately for him, he exposed his inner...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt faced mockery on Wednesday after another apparent slip-up during a press briefing. Leavitt stated that President Donald Trump is “committed to passing a big reconciliation package later this year,” which includes “ending no taxes on tips.” Leavitt says Trump is committed to "ending no taxes on tips" — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)2025-03-19T17:30:01.137Z Critics quickly seized on the phrase, interpreting it as an accidental double negative that contradicted Trump’s 2024 election campaign promise to nix taxes on tips. Trump is yet to implement the policy. Leavitt on Monday drew similar mockery after she accidentally claimed the...

OMG...MIC DROP. DOOCY: There is now a member of the European Parliament from France who does not think The US represents the values of the Statue of Liberty anymore. They want the Statue of Liberty back. So is President Trump going to send the Statue of Liberty back to France? LEAVITT: "Absolutely not. My advice to that unnamed low level French politician would be to remind them that it's only because of the United States Of America that the French are not speaking German right now. So, they should be very grateful, to our great country."

An upcoming 60 Minutes investigation into the drone sightings that took place toward the end of 2024 promises to reveal more about the government's knowledge and response to the still largely-unexplained phenomena. In a preview for the special, CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker speaks with Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker, Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, inquiring about the intelligence community's thoughts on the mysterious sightings and whether these could have been an attempt at espionage by a foreign power. "I am privy to classified briefings at the highest level," Wicker said. "I think the Pentagon and the National Security...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt sparred with an Associated Press reporter Tuesday over ... an "insulting" question "trying to test [her] knowledge of economics." AP's Josh Boak asked about President Donald Trump's address at the Business Roundtable (BRT) quarterly meeting that was set to occur after the White House press briefing. He claimed that despite Trump previously touting tax cuts during his last BRT meeting in 2024, the president is now pushing "tax hikes" through tariffs. Leavitt objected to this line of questioning, interrupting him, saying, "Not true." "I’m curious why he is prioritizing that over tax cuts," Boak...

Amy Gleason, a relatively low-profile health-care executive who did a past government stint, has been named as the administrator of the U.S. DOGE Service. It ends the uncertainty over who was technically in charge of DOGE after the White House said last week that Elon Musk, who had been the face of the agency and its efforts to cut government spending, had “no actual or formal authority” over government decisions, and was neither the official in charge nor an employee there. Here’s what to know about Gleason. 1. She is a former health-care executive and worked for Trump and Biden...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨Karoline Leavitt says Elon Musk and DOGE have been sent to investigate DEAD PEOPLE receiving Social Security payments: “They suspect that there are tens of millions of deceased people receiving fraudulent Social Security payments.”

A journalist with The Associated Press thought she had a big scoop. Little did she know she would have to be scooped off the ground after being obliterated in a fact-check by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.FAA staff fired over the weekend included personnel that worked radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others. Hundreds were fired, just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in DC killed 67. One employee said they were harassed on Facebook by @DOGE… — Tara Copp (@TaraCopp) February 17, 2025 More fake news from the @AP 1. DOGE doesn’t even have a Facebook page...

Karoline Leavitt, 27, is trolling Democrats who are afraid of DOGE with a reminder that their party leaders Barack Obama and Joe Biden wanted to cut federal spending in the past. Liberals have been in a frenzy as they attempt to halt Donald Trump's and Elon Musk's DOGE, which is ruffling feathers in Washington as bureaucrats and longtime government employees fear their jobs could be on the chopping block. Top Democrats have protested alongside federal employees outside of government agency headquarters to demand that DOGE and its lieutenants stop their quest to root out waste. -- snip -- Leavitt is...

It takes loyalty to rise in Donald Trump’s world. And on Saturday, July 13, Karoline Leavitt demonstrated it in uncommon fashion. As she tells it, Trump’s then-campaign spokeswoman had only just carried her 3-day-old baby boy home from the hospital when she switched on the television to watch her boss’s campaign rally in Butler, Pa. It turned out to be the fateful event at which a would-be assassin’s bullet clipped Trump’s ear. Almost immediately, according to Leavitt, she and her husband decided: She would scrap a planned maternity leave and go back to work, which she did four days later....

The change from Karine Jean-Pierre to Karoline Leavitt as White House Press Secretary is one of the most significant upgrades in American political history. On Wednesday, Leavitt again proved why she was a great choice to communicate President Trump’s agenda to the American people. As TGP’s Jordan Conradson reported, Leavitt held her latest press conference where she discussed President Trump’s meetings with foreign leaders at the White House along with the discoveries made by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Of course, corporate media reporters were only interested in trying to ambush Leavitt with ridiculous questions regarding the Trump administration’s...

Democrats often sound condescending and presumptuous while hurling indefensible insults. Fortunately, at least one talented young staffer in President Donald Trump's administration knows how to deal with her misguided detractors. On Saturday, according to the New York Post, 27-year-old White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt fired back at Democratic Rep. Dave Min of California, who called her a "fake Christian" last month on the social media platform X. "I think it’s pitiful for an elected member of Congress to say that about a woman who he’s never even met," Leavitt said. At her first press briefing on Jan. 28, Leavitt...

White house Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did not take kindly to a nasty Democrat congressman mocking her Christian beliefs and gave a perfect response that illustrates her true character... During an interview with the New York Post on Saturday, Leavitt swatted aside Min’s vile post with disdain. “I think it’s pitiful for an elected member of Congress to say that about a woman who he’s never even met,” she told The Post Saturday.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has earned a new nickname from her fanbase after a heated exchange with Good Morning America host Michael Strahan. Leavitt caught Strahan off guard during an interview on Wednesday as she defended President Donald Trump's efforts to force federal government workers back into their offices in Washington, DC. Strahan expressed concerns that government doctors and scientists would leave their jobs in the federal government rather than return to work five days a week in their offices.'Is there any concern that we risk losing people with years of experience like doctors and let's say, scientists?'...