White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saids changes in press credentialing will rotate traditional outlets and include some streaming services.

In announcing plans to hand-select the reporters who can ask the president questions at many events, the White House is breaking decades of precedent.

The White House said Tuesday that its officials “will determine” which news outlets can regularly cover President Donald Trump up close — a sharp break from a century of tradition in which a pool of independently chosen news organizations go where the chief executive does and hold him accountable on behalf of regular Americans.

The agency known as "Doge" is Musk's brainchild, but the White House insists that he is not its leader - or even employed by it.

Amy Gleason was identified as the DOGE administrator by the White House on Tuesday. For weeks, it had been unclear who was leading the office.