The Trump admin has many unfilled positions and a number of "acting" staff members, so the POTUS has a skeleton staff of "yes" people having discarded any who disagree.
Now, the WH is, in essence, shutting out reporters, even when they have already all but eliminated daily briefings.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/09/opinions/new-white-house-press-pass-rules-opinion-lockhart/index.html
Under the new rule, which has been implemented in the last few weeks after being announced in March, media members covering the White House can have their hard passes renewed if they have entered the grounds 50 percent or more of the time in the 180 days before renewal.
Sanders cited security concerns as the reason behind the changes, saying the move was not an effort to limit access for journalists covering the administration.
Milbank, who recently wrote Trump should be offered $10 billion in cash reparations in exchange for his retirement from office, says the revocation of his hard pass is "in line" with "threats to revoke to White House credentials of journalists the White House doesn't like."
