White House press secretary Leavitt was asked about President Donald Trump going from saying he did not know about Project 2025 during the campaign to now knowing about it and supporting it.

The press secretary did not directly answer if Project 2025 was "the blueprint for shrinking the government."

"The blueprint is what the president, and his team and his Cabinet secretaries ultimately decide. And the president trusts his Cabinet secretaries to identify where there is waste, fraud and abuse," Leavitt said.

Russ Vought, the OMB director, co-authored Project 2025.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump is exploring plans to cut federal funding to Portland due to what she said was a rise in "Antifa" related incidents.

"We will not fund states that allow anarchy," she told reporters.

Antifa is not a group, but rather a political philosophy or movement. The term comes from the longer "anti-fascist" and is used as a catchall for groups that oppose the concept of authoritarianism, neo-Nazism and white supremacy.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, in a post on X on Friday, slammed the Trump administration for putting a hold on funding for Chicago infrastructure projects.

"At a time when federal agents are sowing chaos in Chicago, the Trump administration is holding bipartisan funding hostage," Pritzker wrote. "It’s attempting to score political points but is instead hurting our economy and the hardworking people who rely on public transit to get to work or school."

-ABC News' Oren Oppenheim

Johnson was asked by reporters to respond to President Donald Trump's latest social media posts depicting AI-generated videos that taunted Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought as the "grim reaper" and another that made fun of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

The speaker has said for days that the shutdown is hard on federal workers who are not getting paid. Johnson, however, defended Trump's threats and trolling.

"The effects are really serious on real people, real Americans. We support federal employees who do a great job in all of these different areas, but what they're trying to have fun with, trying to make light of, was to point out the absurdity of the Democrats' position," he said.

"And they are using the memes and the tools of social media to do that. Some people find that entertaining, but the decisions are hard ones and they are not taking any pleasure in that," he added.

Johnson reiterated claims that Trump has the power to make the firings, but would not provide more details or explanation as to how those terminations would affect the budget.