Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, May 22, 2025
May 22, 2025 · The White House · 0:33:02
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What happened
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed members of the media on May 22, 2025, carried on the White House channel, opening with the killing of two Israeli embassy staff members in Washington the night before. “President Trump is saddened and outraged over the brutal murder of two Israeli embassy staff here in Washington D.C. last night. Yaron Leshinsky and Sarah Milgram were a beautiful young couple,” she said, stating that Leshinsky had planned to propose to Milgram the following week in Jerusalem. “The evil of anti-Semitism must be eradicated from our society. I spoke to the Attorney General this morning. The Department of Justice will be prosecuting the perpetrator responsible for this to the fullest extent of the law,” she said, as she stated the administration’s response.
She then announced the House’s overnight passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — “the most significant piece of legislation in years,” as she described it — crediting the President with bringing the Republican conference together at the end, and summarizing the bill as she presented it: the largest tax cut in American history, no tax on tips and overtime, border funding for at least one million annual removals, Medicaid changes removing 1.4 million people she described as illegally present from benefits, and $1.6 trillion in mandatory savings, as she stated the figures. She closed the announcements by previewing the President’s West Point commencement address, his Memorial Day visit to Arlington, and the June 14 Army 250th anniversary parade.
Why it matters
This briefing pairs the administration’s answer to the embassy murders — a fullest-extent prosecution pledge stated the morning after — with its victory lap and sales case for the signature bill on the morning after House passage, ahead of the MAHA report event the same afternoon.
Scoreboard watch
This briefing is a scoreboard reference point: the Department of Justice prosecution commitment in the embassy-staff murders and the One Big Beautiful Bill’s Senate path, each as stated by the Press Secretary, to be checked against the court and legislative records.
Sources: The White House, “Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, May 22, 2025” (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by the Press Secretary.