In an email to members Monday, the WHCA board said the plans, confirmed by POLITICO, are a “wrong-headed effort.” ...

The White House plans to impose its own seating chart for reporters in the briefing room in coming weeks, taking over a function long managed by the reporters themselves through the White House ...

The Trump administration said it might take over the seating chart for the press briefing room, something that for decades has been handled by a press association.

The board also pushed back on another claim made ... While the WHCA is pushing back against the White House on the seating chart, the organization has already backed down to the administration ...

A change to the seating chart would amount to another encroachment ... questions and produce fair coverage,” the association’s board said in its note. The White House communications director ...