After losing a court case about The Associated Press having access to the president, the White House announced a new rule for the media on Tuesday. This rule makes it much harder for news agencies that provide news to media around the world to get access to Donald Trump. This was the newest try by the new government to manage how its actions were reported.

This decision could stop the AP and other news agencies that provide news to billions of readers through many news sources. This happened after a judge said the White House had unfairly stopped the organization because it did not agree with the news outlet's choice to keep the name Gulf of Mexico.

The White House has a new policy for press coverage in small areas like the Oval Office and Air Force One. The plan says that the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, will decide which journalists can ask the president questions.

The White House did not reply to requests for a comment on Tuesday evening.

Last week, a judge decided that the White House wrongly punished the AP news agency. They did this because the AP didn't want to call the Gulf of Mexico by a different name. The White House stopped AP reporters and photographers from going to events. The judge ordered the government to treat the AP the same as other news companies.

The day after ignoring McFadden's decision and still banning the AP news agency when Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele spoke to reporters, the White House secretly gave a new rule to some journalists.

For many years, the White House Correspondents Association has been in charge of the small group of reporters who go to events where space is limited. This group always has reporters from the news agencies AP, Reuters, and Bloomberg. Also, one reporter from a newspaper is chosen, and different news companies take turns from a list of over 30.

The White House will now treat the three news agencies the same as print reporters for two places. This means about 36 reporters will take turns using these two regular places. News agencies usually write stories that are used by many media outlets in different places.

Even with the changes, the White House said Trump's press secretary would still choose who is in the press group each day. The new rules also say that reporters can be included no matter what opinions their news organization has.

Lauren Easton from the AP said they were very unhappy because the White House chose to limit all news services instead of letting the AP have access again.

Easton, who speaks for the Associated Press, explained that news agencies provide news to many newspapers and TV stations in the U.S. and globally. They use this news to keep local communities in all 50 states informed.

Easton said on Tuesday evening that the government is still ignoring the basic American right to speak freely without being controlled or punished by the government.

The independent White House reporters' group said the government's wish to decide who reports on the president shows they cannot promise to stop treating people unfairly because of their opinions.

Eugene Daniels, who leads the association, said, "The government should not control the independent media that writes about it."

With Leavitt in charge, the White House has given more access to news groups that support Trump. This was clear on Tuesday, when the first reporter Leavitt spoke to in a meeting asked two questions and also said good things about Trump's policies.

At a meeting on Monday, Trump became angry when a reporter from CNN, Kaitlan Collins, asked him questions about a man sent back to prison in El Salvador. He even said that CNN "hated our country." He then showed how different her questions were from a simple question asked by another reporter.

Even though there have been some intense moments, Trump has been more available to the media than the president before him, Joe Biden. He likes talking to reporters in small spaces, especially in the Oval Office, which makes the new rule about letting reporters in more important.

The new rules that started on Tuesday didn't say if photographers could enter. Before this, in a court meeting about the AP's case, their main White House photographer, Evan Vucci, and writer Zeke Miller talked about how the ban has made it hard for a news company that needs to quickly share news and pictures with people.

The problem began when AP decided not to follow the president's order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. But AP's rules do mention that Trump wanted it called the Gulf of America. McFadden agreed with AP's view that the government cannot punish the news group for what it says, because this is their right to speak freely.

The White House says that letting journalists see the president is a special favor, not a right, and that they should decide who gets this access, just like they choose who President Trump talks to alone. In court papers from last weekend, his lawyers said that even after the judge's ruling, the Associated Press would not have easy access to public presidential events anymore.

The government argued, "No other news group in the U.S. gets the same guaranteed access that the AP used to have. The AP might be used to its special position, but the Constitution doesn't say it has to last forever."

The government has asked a higher court to look at McFadden's decision. On Thursday, they will say that the decision should stop for now until the case is completely finished, maybe by the highest court in the country.

For the last two months, the government has allowed the Associated Press (AP) to attend Leavitt's briefings. But they have stopped AP reporters with White House passes from going to events in the East Room. This changed on Tuesday when one reporter was allowed to attend an event with the Navy football team.