The White House has taken over the press pool and is now ending a practice of letting an outside association decide who gets access to the president and who does not.

In other news, illegal immigrants in the United States will now need to register with the federal government within the next 30 days.

The DHS has created this registry system by noting they are

enforcing the Alien Registration Act of 1940. And meanwhile, while the Department of Government

Efficiency and Elon Musk have faced backlash from government employees and legacy news outlets,

Trump seems to believe that Doge should become more aggressive, not less.

And we're now seeing actions along those lines.

I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads.

The White House is ending a whole system that used to, just until now, used to let an outside association decide who gets access to the president and who does not. An organization known as the White House Correspondents Association,

they used to control a good amount of press access to the White House.

And now the Trump administration is replacing them with a new White House press pool

and is also promising more access to new outlets, independent journalists,

podcasts, radio hosts, and so on.

Now look, White House and AP on this, this comes on the heels of the administration

revolving, removing AP news from the news briefings for allegedly refusing to use the new

name for the Gulf of America, right?

Now, AP is suing to overturn.

They're saying, how can you remove us from the White House?

The case is raising debate now over whether the White House has the right to determine which

media are allowed in the briefings and which ones are not.

And while AP is again saying that they should be allowed in, other people

are saying, well, what about all the different journalists? What about all the different news outlets

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