2025 10 23 Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Oct. 23, 2025 part003 (28 42min)

a chance. We'll be watching, and if you need us, we are here, and if I feel as though you continue to fill your citizens, the federal government may have to step in. But we'll continue to watch San Francisco, and that law enforcement operation has now been paused. Thank you. And then on the note, King's protestors, I saw videos of people explicitly calling for violence against Stephen Miller against the President, shirt saying we don't have enough assassins, calling for more political violence. Does the President want to see arrests here, and are we going to see arrests of these types of explicit calls of violence? I would thank myself, the President, and everyone here at the White House certainly hopes that anyone who is making violent and illegal threats in that way against public officials will be arrested and prosecuted. Thank you. Thank you. Two questions. Will the President support the Senate ending the legislative filibuster to end the shutdown? This is something I haven't heard the President talk about much, so I don't want to speak on him for it. I'll let him answer that question himself. Can you have an update on the NASA Administrator nominee? Do you plan to nominate anyone soon? Or does the President and I don't think so. I'll leave that to the President himself. He'll make a decision in due time, and when he does, you will hear directly from him as you always do. Will the President and the President and the President make back, will give our friends in the back a chance? Yes. At the top of the briefing, USDA has warned that it will run out of funds to pay full SNAP benefits next month if the shutdown continues. Senator Hawley is floating a bill that would ensure SNAP benefits are continued to pay during the shutdown. Will the President support such a move? And you also announced that the administration was using tariff revenue to keep weight going during the shutdown. How long will that last? And is anything similar being considered for SNAP? Yes. The administration would absolutely support that legislation. We hope that it would come over the finish line, but the bill that will get everyone paid and put everyone back to work is the clean continuing resolution. That's what the President and Republicans want to see. Ed, go ahead. Thanks, Your Honor. On the Russian sanctions again, how much pressure do you think this sanctioning these two Russian companies actually puts on President Putin because the last administration sanctioned two other oil companies? So how much pressure is this really? A lot. If you read the sanctions and look at them, they're pretty hefty. And I saw some international news out of China this morning that they're scaling back. Oil purchases from Russia. We know India has done the same at the request of the President. President has also pushed European countries, our allies, to please stop their purchases of Russian oil as well. So it's full court press for sure, and we expect that these sanctions are going to do harm as the Secretary of Treasury said yesterday. It's just the first step, or could there be more sanctions? I'll leave that to the President to decide. Sure. The video or heard the NBA gambling involved in the gambling issue there. Does the President gamble? What do you think about that? You know, I'm not sure. I don't think he does. I've been with him quite some time, and I have not seen him gamble before. I don't think he's a big gambler. But you can ask him yourself for the next time you have a chance to, Ed. Go ahead. Thank you, Carolyn. We've got two quick questions. Back to the ballroom. It is a very spectacular ballroom, according to the renderings. And if it's happened as nice as the one in Marlaugher, then it's future President. It's really going to appreciate it. They will. From Jay. First of all, is there, is there like an official name, like, are we calling it the Trump ballroom, or does the President have a vision for what the name for the ballroom is going to be? There will be an official name. I will let the President announce that once he firmly decides on it. Question is, you know, looking at these renderings, and it kind of got me thinking, he's likely going to go down as the greatest builder of this era, and you've been in on a lot of those meetings with him. Has, to your knowledge, has the subject of rebuilding the Holy Temple and Jerusalem come up? It has not. No. It has not. I don't. I'm sorry. Go ahead. On the CC pardon, could this clear the way for finance to resume U.S. operations? I won't get ahead of that. That's something for Treasury or the Department of Commerce to comment on, so you're welcome to ask them. Any more details on the President's Walter Reed? Is it, the readout from his doctor mentioned advanced imaging? What procedure was he referring to? Advanced imaging is something that presidents receive, and people receive when they go to the doctor. And so we provide a detailed readout of that physical, and I would encourage you back to that. President and I don't know the exact imaging that took place, but as the Physicians Note said, the President is in incredibly good shape, and I think that's evidenced here every single day. Danny. Back to the ballroom, I'm afraid. I just wanted to ask, because in July, the White House said that it would cost 200 million. Yesterday, the President said 300 million. It's 300 million now, the operative figure, and why did it go up by so much? 300 million is the figure, and again, it's not going to cost the taxpayers a dime. So we look forward to this project continuing, and we will continue to keep everyone apprised on it. Perhaps the President will even bring you all out to see it one day at the appropriate time. You're also going to hear from the President directly in about an hour. He's hosting an event with the Homeland Security Task Force. This was a newly created federal task force that the President and his law enforcement team have put together. I would encourage you all to tune into the remarks. They have really done a tremendous job at refocusing how federal law enforcement and local law enforcement work together. There will be some local sheriffs and law enforcement officials in attendance as well, and they'll be talking about the success. And the many arrests they have made of drug traffickers and cartel members all across the country by just simply working together. So we will see you at the event. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you, everyone.