“We may and we may go beyond that,” President Trump says when asked if he might have to extend social distancing guidelines until early summer.
Here are Thursday's most significant developments in Washington:
President Donald Trump speaks flanked by Vice President Mike Pence during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on April 22, 2020, in Washington.
But Bryan warned that “it would be irresponsible for us to say that we feel the summer will totally kill the virus.” Trump for the second day in a row dismissed questions on McConnell’s suggestion that states hard-hit financially by the pandemic should declare bankruptcy instead of looking for help from Congress, saying, “I don’t want to talk about it now.”
Pence also ran through a list of places, previously known to be hotspots, that appear to be past their peak caseload of the virus, including the New York City metro area, New Jersey, Connecticut, Detroit, and New Orleans.Vice President Mike Pence speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, April 23, 2020, in Washington.
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