Badlands Media Special Coverage: 10/13/26 - First White House Press Briefing with Katie Zacharia
Katie Zacharia steps up to the podium for her first briefing as the new White House Press Secretary. She opens by thanking President Trump and the American people, then walks through the midterm blitz: last night's rally in Youngstown, Ohio, the new Navy submarine component repair center coming to Cleveland, and upcoming stops in Alaska, Arizona, Montana, Georgia, Kentucky and Florida. From there she covers real wages, prescription drug prices, manufacturing jobs, energy dominance and the Venezuela oil deal, trillions in new investment including a $15 billion steel complex in Iowa and a South…
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