Every few years the association updates the seating chart to reflect changes across the media landscape. It also assigns "all booths and desks" in the news media's White House workspace, its website notes. The Trump White House has been sharply critical of the association since Trump retook office in January. Some correspondents believe Trump wants to eliminate the group altogether. In February Trump banned The Associated Press, a foundational part of White House coverage for more than one hundred years, from press conferences and other events. Then Leavitt said the White House would pick the "press pool" reporters who travel with the president and attend small-scale events with him, thereby stripping the association of its historic role organizing the pool. In recent weeks, the White House has invited hyperpartisan pro-Trump websites and relatively low-rated TV networks into the pool.