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American Republican communications aide who served as White House press secretary in Trump's second term, from January 2025 to August 2026.
Katie Zacharia held her first briefing as White House press secretary on Tuesday, the sixth person in the job under Trump. The count is high against recent presidents, but all three tenures under a year came before Leavitt.
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Katie Zacharia, Trump's new press secretary, ended her first briefing after 14 minutes and three questions, all from conservative-leaning outlets. The list points to a planned format, but one stumbling debut does not yet show a posture different from Leavitt's.
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White House press secretary Katie Zacharia tied $54 billion of Korea's up-to-$200 billion US energy package to Alaska LNG on Tuesday. Seoul's trade ministry says the project is not finalized and needs a commercial-viability review first.
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Donald Trump on Friday picked Katie Zacharia, a senior communications adviser at Trump Media & Technology Group, as his next White House press secretary. For the investors in the company that owns Truth Social, the governance question is whether she quits, and no report yet answers it.
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Both of the CFTC's event-contract settlements began as Kalshi referrals, so the exchange is now funding securities-style trade surveillance in the same week the Ninth Circuit declined to shield it from Nevada gambling law.
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