Name: FULL: Karoline Leavitt White House press briefing | June 19, 2025
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President Trump's powerful efforts to secure our homeland are working.

According to newly released numbers, last month, Border Patrol saw a 93 percent decrease of illegal aliens crossing the southwest border between ports of entry from May 2024 under

Joe Biden when they encountered more than 117,000 illegal aliens.

And this particular statistic is absolutely astounding.

In the month of May under the Trump administration, zero illegal aliens were released into our country by Border Patrol.

Not a single illegal alien was released into the interior of the United States of America last month under this administration.

Let's contrast that to Joe Biden's failed leadership, where immigration officers were wasting their finite time and resources processing dangerous illegal aliens for release into the United States.

President Trump immediately terminated that reckless Biden era practice that undermined the rule of law, jeopardized public safety and our national security, and diverted critical resources away from stopping deadly drugs and violent criminals from entering our country.

That's the reason why not a single illegal alien was released into the interior of the

And as a result, we now have a border that is reaching unprecedented levels of operational success.

The efforts by President Trump to stop the illegal immigrant invasion and secure the border in this short amount of time represent one of the greatest achievements by a presidential administration in the history of our great country.

With illegal entries being overwhelmingly halted, the Trump administration is dramatically ramping up efforts to arrest and deport all of the millions of criminal illegal aliens that Joe Biden let into our country over the past four years.

President Trump has directed all of our ICE officers to do everything in their power to carry out the single largest mass deportation operation in history.

Illegal criminals who are hiding in America's largest so-called sanctuary cities will be increasingly targeted for removal.

Radical Democrats will no longer be allowed to shelter illegals who threaten public safety as part of their cynical efforts to expand political power, drain the American taxpayer, and artificially lower wages and steal American jobs.

ICE officers are courageous heroes upholding the rule of law and keeping our citizens safe.

And they have the full and unwavering support of this president.

In economic news, President Trump's pro-growth agenda is delivering for the American worker.

Through the first five months of the Trump administration, real blue-collar wages are up nearly 2%.

It's the strongest growth in nearly 60 years and a stark contrast from the negative wage growth seen during the first five months of the Biden administration.

America is quickly returning to the successful formula of the first Trump administration, low inflation and rising wages.

Once the big, big, beautiful bill is passed, this positive trend will only accelerate.

Senate Republicans are continuing to push this critical legislation forward.

The one, big, beautiful bill will drive growth and supercharge the American economy.

The Council of Economic Advisers found that the one, big, beautiful bill will raise take-home pay by nearly $14,000 for a year for the average family of four.

The CEA also found that the one, big, beautiful bill will increase wages as much as $11,000 for the average worker in America.

The one, big, beautiful bill expands the child tax credit and makes it permanent for more than 40 million families with children.

And the bill will deliver no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and substantial tax cuts for our incredible seniors.

Simply put, the one, big, beautiful bill is a massive win for middle-class Americans.

When nearly 80 million Americans sent President Trump back to this White House, they were doing so expecting these popular policies to be enacted.

Republicans in Congress have a mandate to deliver.

And President Trump demands they send this historic bill to his desk for signature by

The American people are fully behind President Trump.

According to new – brand-new polling from Insider Advantage, a clear 54 percent majority of Americans approve of the job President Trump is doing.

That's because this President is keeping his promises and taking action every day to improve their lives.

And passing this bill will help fulfill a number of President Trump's core campaign promises.

Now, regarding the ongoing situation in Iran, I know there has been a lot of speculation amongst all of you in the media regarding the President's decision-making and whether or not the United States will be directly involved.

In light of that news, I have a message directly from the President, and I quote,

Based on the fact that there is a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.

That's a quote directly from the President for all of you today.

So we'll kick it off for questions here in our new media seat.

On the Free Press, the decision to extend the, I guess, delay in enforcing the TikTok ban.

How the White House understands its constitutional authority in light of the Supreme Court's decision in January that said that the President had to enforce the ban?

Well, as all of you know, because the President put it out on his Truth Social today, he did sign an executive order to extend TikTok, the TikTok ban, for 90 days, so in the effort to make a deal.

And the White House Counsel and the Department of Justice have reviewed this executive order, and I can get it for you.

If it's not, my team will now put it up immediately, and you can read the language in that executive order.

And the White House Counsel's Office and the Department of Justice strongly believe in the legal rationale for this executive order.

They wouldn't have the President's pen hit it if they didn't.

And the political reasoning for this, of course, is because the President made a promise to keep TikTok on.

There are 100 million Americans who use this app.

He also wants to protect Americans' data and privacy concerns on this app, and he believes we can do both things at the same time.

So he's making an extension so we can get this deal done.

A few weeks ago, Tucker Carlson reported on a meeting between the President, Mark Levin, and others at the White House.

Is there a leak investigation, and can you say who else was in that meeting?

I'm not aware of a leak investigation at this time.

I, for one, do not reveal details about the President's private meetings without his permission to do so.

But certainly, the President does not like when people leak.

This entire Administration takes that seriously, and that's why you've seen at agencies some of the Cabinet secretaries have been given the authority by the President to let go of staff who are engaged in such leaks, especially those that risk American national security.

So Rhino warmonger Lindsey Graham, he recently called on the U.S. to go all-in on TikTok.

What's your message to everyday Trump supporters?

Not the Tucker Carlsons or other big names, but everyday Trump supporters, grassroots who voted for President Trump to stop the wars, rejected this in the primary going into another war with voting against Nikki Haley, and they want to see non-U.S. involvement in this war.

President Trump has incredible instincts, and President Trump kept America and the world safe in his first term as President in implementing a peace-through-strength foreign policy agenda.

And with respect to Iran, nobody should be surprised by the President's position that

Iran absolutely cannot obtain a nuclear weapon.

He's been unequivocally clear about this for decades, not just as President, not just as a presidential candidate, but also as a private citizen.

In 2011, President Trump said America's primary goal with Iran must be to destroy its nuclear ambitions.

We cannot allow this radical regime to acquire a nuclear weapon that they will either use or hand off to terrorists.

In 2015, the President said the problem is that Iran poses the next essential threat to Israel, our Middle Eastern allies, and the United States.

And of course, the President has repeated that in his first term as President and his second term as President as well.

That's why he was adamantly opposed to the disastrous Iranian nuclear agreement that was implemented by President Obama.

And it's why he has given great latitude and given a lot of effort to achieving a diplomatic solution.

Iran went for 60 days when he gave them that 60-day warning without coming to the table.

On Day 61, Israel took action against Iran.

And as I just told you from the President directly, he has – he will make a decision within two weeks.