WASHINGTON— Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made her debut in the White House briefing room where she defended President Donald Trump's plans to slash federal spending and its mass deportation efforts.

In her first press briefing, Leavitt started with a question from an Axios journalist and made several criticisms of the media.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to ever hold that office, made her debut Tuesday in the first White House briefing of Donald Trump's second term in office.

Microsoft attempted to make a bid on TikTok during Trump’s first time in the White House when he tried to ban the app.

U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the app. (Reporting by Nandita Bose and Costas Pitas;