I'm Kate Trinco and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Wednesday, July 19th.

Here are today's headlines.

The Biden White House is further limiting press access.

My colleague Rob Louis, who of course is also the executive editor of the Daily Signal,

wrote about this, saying that it's the latest and perhaps most brazen attempt by President

Joe Biden to limit media access to what he regularly calls the People's House.

The White House press office will implement new rules July 31st when all hardpasses expire.

So our own Fred Lucas, who's been a hardpass holder since 2009 in his chief news correspondent

for the Daily Signal, will no longer be able to easily attend White House press briefings

or access the White House, as he is done for the past 14 years.

The new rules, which were announced in May, will limit the number of journalists who are

eligible for a White House hardpass and give Biden's press team greater power to expel

journalists they don't like.

The rules require pass holders to first obtain accreditation by a press gallery in either

the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, or the Supreme Court.

The Daily Signal, a media outlet founded by the Heritage Foundation in 2014, doesn't have

press credentials to cover Congress or the Supreme Court, although Lucas recently applied

for both.

It's unclear when he'll receive a response and unlikely he'll be approved if history

is a guide.

And we know from our friends in the conservative news world that it can be tough for conservative

outlets to get congressional press credentials.

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