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Last week, new White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gave tepid support to returning to the tradition that White House press briefings would likely remain on-camera, potentially defusing an issue of contention with the press corps.
“Yeah, I think for now,” she said in an interview with The New York Times. “We’ll see what happens.”
Sanders was promoted to press secretary after her predecessor, Sean Spicer, resigned following the announcement that Anthony Scaramucci would be appointed White House communications director. Less than two weeks later, Scaramucci was fired by incoming chief of staff John Kelly.
She also recently took over the White House press secretary’s Twitter handle from Spicer, which has been handed down to staffers in that role since the Obama administration.
Today, I’m turning the @PressSec handle over to Sarah. It’s been an incredible honor sharing @POTUS‘ message with over 2M followers each day
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) August 4, 2017