The White House plans to take over the seating chart for the press briefing room and will likely boot some legacy media outlets farther back, according to a report. It’s the Trump administration ...

Ian Ward is a reporter at POLITICO. Francis Chung is a POLITICO staff photographer.

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On Sunday, Axios reported that the White House plans to take over the seating chart of the briefing room, which has long ... When the WHCA supported the Associated Press’ suit to get back ...

The Washington social scene was in full swing, with establishment players and emerging ones—from Substack to ...

There are just 49 press seats in the room. The Trump White House also has started selecting different individuals to fill a “new media” seat, and it is located off to the side of the lectern ...

The White House is preparing to shake up the James S. Brady press briefing room in its latest move to upend the power of the press corps, an official confirmed to the Daily Caller. The White House ...

Bush, posted on X. “It should be made by the press sec, as was standard until 2006.” The White House briefing room was renovated that year, which is apparently when WHCA took over.

The latest gambit? A White House takeover of the seating assignments in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. The White House is preparing to take control of the seating assignments in the room ...

The White House Correspondents’ Association says the Trump administration should abandon its “wrong-headed effort” to take control of the press briefing room seating chart. In a memo to its ...