Press secretary Karoline Leavitt is set to make her debut behind the podium as the White House holds its first official news briefing Tuesday afternoon. Leavitt is certain to get questions related to the White House budget office’s decision to pause all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government to ensure its programs are consistent with President Donald Trump’s executive orders.

"The White House is aware of the Medicaid website portal outage," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an X post. "We have confirmed no payments have been affected -- they are still being processed and sent. We expect the portal will be back online shortly," she added.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt fielded a host of questions from the press corps from the briefing room for the first time on Tuesday. She announced at the top that the Trump administration plans to shake up the Brady briefing room and allow a plethora of “new media” to have access to the