section_path: Career/White House Press Secretary (2025–present)
section_name: White House Press Secretary (2025–present)
paragraph_text: White House Press Secretary (2025–present)
  
  On November 15, 2024, president-elect Donald Trump named Leavitt as his White House press secretary. She is the youngest White House press secretary in history. She was given a smaller office in the West Wing in comparison to her predecessors, with the office reserved for press secretaries instead being occupied by Taylor Budowich, the deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel. Leavitt gave her first press conference on January 28, 2025, beginning the briefing by seeking to elevate non-traditional media. During the press conference, she falsely stated that US$50 million in taxpayer dollars had been intended for use in funding condoms in the Gaza Strip.
  
  Her tenure marked a separation from precedent, particularly with the treatment of traditional media. In February, Leavitt announced that the White House would select who participated in the presidential press pool. That month, she stated that "new voices are going to be welcomed" alongside traditional media. The following month, Axios reported that the White House sought to change the seating chart for reporters, potentially by appointing Leavitt as president of the White House Correspondents' Association. Leavitt was named as a defendant in Associated Press v. Budowich (2025), a lawsuit that began after Trump's staff moved to block the Associated Press from certain press events over the Gulf of Mexico–America naming dispute. According to the lawsuit, Leavitt told Zeke Miller (the chief White House correspondent for the Associated Press) that the organization would be barred from certain areas of the White House unless it referred to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America".
  
  A May 2025 photograph of Leavitt feeding her son while working drew international attention.
  
  On November 15, 2024, president-elect Donald Trump named Leavitt as his White House press secretary. She is the youngest White House press secretary in history. She was given a smaller office in the West Wing in comparison to her predecessors, with the office reserved for press secretaries instead being occupied by Taylor Budowich, the deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel. Leavitt gave her first press conference on January 28, 2025, beginning the briefing by seeking to elevate non-traditional media. During the press conference, she falsely stated that US$50 million in taxpayer dollars had been intended for use in funding condoms in the Gaza Strip.
  
  Her tenure marked a separation from precedent, particularly with the treatment of traditional media. In February, Leavitt announced that the White House would select who participated in the presidential press pool. That month, she stated that "new voices are going to be welcomed" alongside traditional media. The following month, Axios reported that the White House sought to change the seating chart for reporters, potentially by appointing Leavitt as president of the White House Correspondents' Association. Leavitt was named as a defendant in Associated Press v. Budowich (2025), a lawsuit that began after Trump's staff moved to block the Associated Press from certain press events over the Gulf of Mexico–America naming dispute. According to the lawsuit, Leavitt told Zeke Miller (the chief White House correspondent for the Associated Press) that the organization would be barred from certain areas of the White House unless it referred to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America".
  
  A May 2025 photograph of Leavitt feeding her son while working drew international attention.