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    Trump Stresses Need To Reopen America While Continuing To Fight The Coronavirus

    The White House team says it will make an assessment after next week as to how effective social distancing and other mitigation measures have been in stifling the spread of the virus.
    by Philip Ewing Mar 23, 2020 5 minutes
    Vice President Pence speaks during a briefing at the White House on Saturday. The coronavirus task force is holding another briefing on Monday afternoon.

    Updated at 8:03 p.m. ET

    On Monday evening, President Trump stressed what he called the need to reopen America for business even as he said the government also would continue tackling the spiraling coronavirus pandemic.

    The White House's team will make an assessment after next week as to how effective social distancing and other mitigation measures have been in stifling the spread of the virus, said Vice President Pence.

    It's possible at that time that Washington could lift some of the restrictions that have paralyzed the economy, Trump and Pence suggested, but they offered no guarantees and the details weren't clear.

    Trump said that he didn't know when life would get back to normal but said it would be "a lot sooner than three or four months" and that he didn't want the pandemic to disrupt the nation so badly that today's

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