White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Tuesday that President Trump’s administration will take direct control of the composition of the daily press pool after winning an initial court decision Monday over its two-week exclusion of the Associated Press.

The change sets aside decades of historical deference to the White House Correspondents’ Association, but it’s unclear to what extent the move actually will change the mix of reporters given close access to Trump.

“It’s beyond time that the White House press operation reflects the media habits of the American people in 2025, not 1925. A select group of DC-based journalists should no longer have a monopoly over the privilege of press access at the White House,” Leavitt said at a press briefing.

“So by deciding which outlets make up the limited press pool on a day-to-day basis, the White House will be restoring power back to the American people who President Trump was elected to serve.”

DC US District Judge Trevor McFadden declined to grant the AP a temporary restraining order Monday restoring the outlet to the pool, from which it was barred by Trump officials for declining to update its influential Stylebook to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” pursuant to Trump’s official renaming. (Read more from “Karoline Leavitt Announces White House Will Assume Direct Control of Daily Press Pool After Judge Denies AP’s Bid to Restore Access” HERE)

President Trump revealed Friday that he’s considering merging the US Postal Service with the Commerce Department.

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that his administration is looking at a “merger” of the two government institutions to increase efficiency.

“We want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money, and we’re thinking about doing that, and will be a form of a merger, but it’ll remain the Postal Service, and I think it’ll operate a lot better than it has been over the years,” Trump said.

He had floated the consideration back in December after learning that the USPS lost $9.5 billion in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, according to the Washington Post. The astounding loss was up from $6.5 billion the previous year.

The Postal Service has blamed its increase in losses on a jump in worker compensation and pension liabilities. (Read more from “Trump Floats Merging ‘Tremendous Loser’ Postal Service With Commerce Department” HERE)

A new executive order from President Donald Trump, among the latest in his long list of dozens of actions he’s taken to protect America from illegal aliens and the transgender ideology, and to cut government waste and fraud, puts a bull’s-eye on the taxpayer money being used to “incentivize or support” illegal immigration.

The idea is to make certain “taxpayer resources are used to protect the interests of American citizens, not illegal aliens,” said the order, which also cited statistics from the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

That group said American taxpayers are being forced to pay at least $182 billion a year to cover the expenses of 20 million illegal aliens and their children, including more than $66 billion in federal expenses and $115 billion paid by states and local governments.

Further, the Center for Immigration Studies reported 1 million illegal aliens could cost American taxpayers $3 billion a year through welfare programs to which they are not supposed to have access under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.

But illegal aliens who are granted parole become “qualified aliens,” allowing access to various benefits. (Read more from “Trump Targets Taxpayers’ Money Used to ‘Incentivize or Support’ Illegals” HERE)