While an Associated Press reporter and photographer were barred from covering an Oval Office press conference on Monday as part of the press pool, an AP print journalist who covers the White House was allowed into a Tuesday afternoon executive branch event for the first time in two months.

Washington Post reporter Jeremy Barr posted on X that the AP reporter was “allowed into the 3:30 pm event in the East Room for the first time since the ban began in mid-February.”

The Trump administration’s refusal to admit the AP back into the press pool comes even as a judge has ordered that the White House must stop blocking the wire service’s access.

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