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Press Secretary Leavitt Briefs the Media on Day Six of the Government Shutdown, Oct. 6, 2025

October 6, 2025 · The White House · 0:25:59

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What happened

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed the media on October 6, 2025, opening with scheduling announcements, as the White House recording states them: President Trump would host Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney the next day, hold his eighth cabinet meeting on Thursday, and host Finnish President Alexander Stub the same afternoon. Leavitt then turned to the federal government shutdown, then in its sixth day, which she attributed, as she stated it, to Democrats playing political games. She said, as she stated it, that if Democrats did not vote to open the government that night, federal workers would not receive their next full paycheck, the WIC nutrition program for women, infants, and children would run out of federal money very soon, and military service members working without pay would miss their next paychecks, while the Republican-backed clean funding bill, as she described it, fully funded the food program, paid the troops, and reopened the government.

Under questioning, Leavitt addressed, as the briefing records, prospective federal layoffs during the shutdown, saying the administration was checking the balance sheet and being good stewards of the taxpayer dollar against, as she stated the figure, $37 trillion in debt, and that layoff conversations would not be happening if not for the shutdown. She also disputed, as she stated her position, a federal judge’s ruling against deploying other states’ National Guards to Portland. She closed by saying, as she stated it, that the Office of Management and Budget was trying to find funds for vulnerable populations and urging Senate Democrats to vote that evening to reopen the government.

Why it matters

The briefing is the White House’s day-six shutdown record: the paycheck and WIC deadlines it publicly attached to that night’s Senate vote, and its stated rationale for shutdown layoffs, in the Press Secretary’s own words.

Scoreboard watch

Leavitt’s statements on October 6, 2025 — that federal workers and troops would miss their next paychecks and WIC would run out of federal money if the government did not reopen that night, as she stated them — are dated, checkable claims flagged for the scoreboard editor. No verdict is published from this page.

Sources: The White House, “Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Oct. 6, 2025”, 2025-10-06 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-10-06). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.