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The White House will now decide which news outlets are represented in the daily White House press pool, not the White House Correspondents Association, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Tuesday.

"I am proud to announce that we are going to give the power back to the people who read your papers, who watch your television shows, and who listen to your radio stations," Leavitt said.

The WHCA spoke out against the decision.

"It suggests the government will choose the journalists who cover the president. In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps," White House Correspondents' Association president, Eugene Daniels, said in a statement Tuesday.

The press pool is a small group of White House reporters allowed to get close to the president, and ask questions, in the Oval Office and in some other settings. The WHCA includes media organizations that cover intimate events with the president through a rotating pool of reporters and shares those notes with other outlets.

Leavitt said the new process will open up the pool to other outlets not included in the pool previously.

"Legacy outlets who have participated in the press pool for decades will still be allowed to join -- fear not -- but we will also be offering the privilege to well-deserving outlets who have never been allowed to share in this awesome, responsibility," she said.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins unveiled a plan to tackle bird flu and bring down the cost of eggs, which has skyrocketed in recent and could increase 41% this year. The cost of groceries was a key issue in the 2024 election.

Rollins, speaking to reporters outside the White House after he published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal outlining the steps, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture will enhance biosecurity measures to keep diseases off farms; provide financial relief to farmers to repopulate flocks; and fund research for possible vaccines for animals.

To provide more immediate, short-term relief, Rollins said they were considering importing eggs from other nations.

"We're already in discussions," she said. "There's been, you know if you dig around you'll kind of figure out which countries, but we're talking to three or four countries right now about getting between 70 and 100 million eggs into the country in the next month or two, which of course will help with supply and demand."

During a press conference, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the mineral deal with the U.S. is agreed to in principle.

He said the current minerals deal is a “framework” agreement and does not contain security guarantees, but added that the deal was intended to open the way to discussing broader agreements with the U.S. and other countries that must include security guarantees.

Zelenskyy warned that no “real ceasefire” or peace deal will be possible without real security guarantees for Ukraine.

Zelenskyy also said that he did not know what the U.S. was ready to offer yet, and that he wants to discuss it with President Donald Trump. In regards to his visit to Washington, D.C., on Friday, Zelenskyy said he hopes to and expressed that both countries were still discussing the matter.

– ABC News’ Patrick Reevell

Ahead of President Donald Trump's first cabinet meeting Wednesday morning, the president said that members of his cabinet are "extremely happy" with Elon Musk.

"ALL CABINET MEMBERS ARE EXTREMELY HAPPY WITH ELON. The Media will see that at the Cabinet Meeting this morning!!!" Trump wrote on his social media platform.

-- ABC News' Hannah Demissie