Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Dec. 11, 2025

December 11, 2025 · The White House · 0:36:50

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What happened

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed the media at the White House on December 11, 2025, opening with a year-end review. “As we approach the end of the year, it is a great time to reflect on how much progress our country has made under President Trump’s bold leadership,” she said. “President Trump promised big and has delivered even bigger.”

On the economy, she cited inflation “dropped to an average of just 2.7 percent” in the President’s term thus far, against nine percent under the prior administration, and real wages “on pace to increase to roughly $1,200 for the average American worker this year,” against a decline of almost $3,000 under the prior administration — all as she stated the figures. On energy, she said the nationwide average for regular gasoline had just fallen to its lowest level in nearly five years, citing GasBuddy data released that Monday, as she stated it. She then took questions from the briefing room.

Why it matters

The briefing is the White House’s year-end prosecution of its first-year record: the inflation, wages, and gasoline figures the administration wants measured, stated by its Press Secretary on the record. This chronicle files it on the Elections & Governance hub with every figure attributed to the Press Secretary as stated.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the Press Secretary’s dated figures as stated at the briefing — average inflation of 2.7 percent, real wages on pace for roughly $1,200 this year, and gasoline at a near-five-year low per GasBuddy — are checkable markers. Noted for the scoreboard editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: The White House, “Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Dec. 11, 2025,” The White House, December 11, 2025 (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by the Press Secretary at the briefing.