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Trump tells Sarah Huckabee Sanders ‘not to bother’ with press briefings

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks to the media outside the White House, Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times 5 minutes ago

President Trump blamed the media Tuesday as the reason the White House rarely holds press briefings.

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Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., ranking member on the House Budget Committee listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, as Budget Director Mick Mulvaney testified before the committee's hearing on President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 federal budget. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

House Budget Committee’s new Democratic chairman sees ‘no way’ to balance U.S. budget

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In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, photo, U.S. Coast Guard Culinary Specialist Jerry Wright, right, and Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren Laughlin, second from right, stack boxes of donated cereal at a pop-up food pantry created at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. The pantry was created by local Coast Guard-related advocacy groups to help hundreds of civilian and non-civilian Coast Guard employees to help makes ends meet during the partial federal government shutdown. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)

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In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, image made from video provided by the Survival Media Agency, a teenager wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, center left, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington in Kentucky is looking into this and other videos that show youths, possibly from the diocese's all-male Covington Catholic High School, mocking Native Americans at a rally in Washington. (Survival Media Agency via AP)

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