WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 27: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 27, 2026 in Washington, DC. Leavitt spoke to reporters about this weekend’s events at the White House Correspondents’ dinner. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has announced that she will leave the Trump administration at the end of August, saying she wants to devote more time to her young children.
Leavitt, 28, the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary, described the move as a “bittersweet decision” in a social media post on Wednesday, shortly after President Donald Trump confirmed her departure.
The announcement comes only months after Leavitt returned to the White House briefing room following the birth of her second child, a daughter named Viviana, in May. She is also the mother of a two-year-old son.
Explaining her decision, Leavitt said the demands of the job had become difficult to reconcile with family life.
