Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks from the Briefing Room as voters in Virginia, New York, New Jersey and California vote in crucial elections.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Thursday afternoon as the government shutdown stretches into a fourth week, after a 12th vote on a stopgap funding bill failed a

Thursday briefing: Trump-Xi meeting; Hurricane Melissa; White House ballroom poll; Sonya Massey; and more Hurricane Melissa continued its path of destruction across the Caribbean. Most Americans oppose the demolition of the White House’s East Wing, a poll found.

Trump first said the project wouldn't interfere with the existing White House, but on Thursday satellite images appeared to show the entire East Wing reduced to rubble.

A source associated with an Armed Services and Foreign Relations committee member told Military.com that briefings between partisan members of Congress are unequal.

Outside the White House on Thursday, in the carnival atmosphere just outside the north gates, a woman bearing the sign that read “Geneva” shouted, over and over again, “The demolition is illegal! The demolition is a federal crime.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Tuesday afternoon as voters head to the polls in several key elections in New Jersey, New York, Virginia and California. President