Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., at a news conference in Philadelphia in 2019. Now that lawmakers have left for an extended recess amid the coronavirus pandemic, Scanlon hosted a kid's town hall over the phone. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
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White House adviser Jared Kushner listens as President Trump discusses the coronavirus. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
Michael Atkinson arrives at the Capitol last October where he was questioned about the whistleblower complaint that exposed a controversial July phone call the president had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
A pedestrian in a face mask crosses the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City last month. U.S. health authorities have announced they're changing the official recommendations on face masks, now urging people to wear them in public spaces to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Medical staff in Marseille, France show packets of a Nivaquine, tablets containing chloroquine and Plaqueril, tablets containing hydroxychloroquine. Gerard Julien/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump speaks during the daily briefing Friday on the novel coronavirus. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump speaks about the coronavirus during Friday's briefing at the White House. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
Former Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg announced that he was suspending his campaign in March. His former staffers say they were promised jobs through the general election, even if he was not the nominee. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP hide caption
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People in "close proximity" to President Trump and Vice President Pence will be tested for the coronavirus, the White House said on Friday. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin previously estimated that payments to qualifying Americans would go out by mid-April. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
Medical staff move bodies from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday to a refrigerated truck. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The floor of the Fiserv Forum is seen during a January media walkthrough ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee. The convention has been pushed back a month, to mid-August. Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin speaks while President Trump listens during Thursday's briefing from the White House coronavirus task force. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Early voters cast their ballots at last month in Milwaukee. Morry Gash/AP hide caption
Cars cross 42th Street as rain falls on New York City. President Trump considered, and then dropped, a proposed quarantine of New York state, New Jersey and parts of Connecticut. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., picked South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn to head a bipartisan committee on the coronavirus. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
President Trump has not been able to hold campaign rallies since this one in Charlotte, N.C., on March 2 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
President Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force press briefing on March 29. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Wednesday. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
Jill Mickelson helps a drive up voter outside the Frank P. Zeidler Municipal Building Monday March 30, 2020, in Milwaukee. The city is now allowing drive up early voting for the state's April 7 election. The state is facing renewed calls to postpone the election amid the coronavirus outbreak. Morry Gash/AP hide caption
A pedestrian walks past a closed Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill restaurant in Los Angeles. President Trump has suggested changing tax deductibility law as a way of helping the restaurant industry. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump listens during Wednesday's press briefing with the White House coronavirus task force. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption