Karen Travers, ABC News White House Correspondent

For her very first press briefing on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt faced a barrage of questions on the administration's freeze on federal financial assistance programs that congressional Democrats called flatly illegal. ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers shares her takeaways from this first briefing and what comes next for these federal moves. 

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