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A protester against House Speaker Paul Ryan holds a sign near a packaging facility he visited in West Albany, Ohio, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Ryan also plans to hold a roundtable discussion on tax reform with local business leaders. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)
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FILE - In this April 28, 2011, file photo, Jessica Colotl, whose parents brought her to the country illegally as a child and a student at Kennesaw State University, talks during a media interview at her lawyer's office in Atlanta. Federal authorities revoked the protection from deportation May 3, 2017 granted to Colotl, who became a cause celebre in the debate over illegal immigration when she was a student. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)
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FILE - In this May 1, 2017, file photo, Sen. Alberta Darling, left, and Rep. John Nygren, co-chairs of the Wisconsin state Legislature's budget–writing Joint Finance Committee, field questions in Madison, Wis. There will be no burst of new money for Wisconsin lawmakers writing the state budget. The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported Wednesday, May 10, 2017, that it was not going to update its previous estimates for tax collections over the next two years. That means lawmakers will have to balance the budget based on the numbers they were given in January. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)
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Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York (left), Sen. Christopher Murphy of Connecticut (second from left) and Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon addressed the media after a Democratic policy luncheon on Wednesday. (Associated Press)
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The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan presents the 2016 annual human rights report, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. The report released Wednesday by the independent group, offered a mixed report card in its annual look at the state of human rights in Pakistan, welcoming the enactment of new laws to protect women but decrying an uptick in religiously motivated vigilantism. The report said the country's use of capital punishment ranked among the highest in the world, while its literacy rate was among the lowest. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan presents the 2016 annual human rights report, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. The report released Wednesday by the independent group, offered a mixed report card in its annual look at the state of human rights in Pakistan, welcoming the enactment of new laws to protect women but decrying an uptick in religiously motivated vigilantism. The report said the country's use of capital punishment ranked among the highest in the world, while its literacy rate was among the lowest. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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French President-elect Emmanuel Macron attends a ceremony commemorating the abolition of slavery, in Paris, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 3, 2017 file photo actress Vanessa Redgrave poses for a portrait photograph after being interviewed by Associated Press in London. The Academy Award-winning actress makes her directing debut with "Sea Sorrow," a highly personal documentary about the migrant crisis that is set to premiere at this month's Cannes Film Festival. (Photo by Grant Pollard/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 3, 2017 file photo actress Vanessa Redgrave poses for a portrait photograph after being interviewed by Associated Press in London. The Academy Award-winning actress makes her directing debut with "Sea Sorrow," a highly personal documentary about the migrant crisis that is set to premiere at this month's Cannes Film Festival. (Photo by Grant Pollard/Invision/AP, File)
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In this Wednesday, April 26, 2017 photo, Farah Larrieux poses for a photograph in her home in Miramar, Fla. Larrieux is among roughly 50,000 Haitians legally living and working in the U.S. that could suddenly face deportation if immigration privileges granted after a 2010 earthquake devastated their Caribbean homeland are allowed to expire. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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Amy Pack attends a gathering of descendants of the roughly 600 men who were subjects in the Tuskegee syphilis study, in Tuskegee, Ala., on Monday, April 3, 2017. A retired public health nurse, Pack visited with men of the study through her job in Macon County and had relatives who were among the test subjects. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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Somalian refugee Mohamoud Saed stands in his friend's clothing shop he helps out with in Clarkston, Ga., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Saed, who was a doctor in Somalia before he fled the nation's civil war, anxiously awaits the arrival of his wife and eight children while struggling with kidney issues that he hopes could be solved with a transplant from one of his family members. The Saeds completed the lengthy refugee application process but never made the trip to the U.S. Their travel documents expired during legal wrangling over President Donald Trump's executive orders to limit the refugee program and ban travel from several countries, including Somalia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Mohamoud Saed, a refugee from Somalia, looks at a photo of his family on his phone in Clarkston, Ga., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Saed, who was a doctor in Somalia before he fled the nation's civil war, anxiously awaits the arrival of his wife and eight children while struggling with kidney issues that he hopes could be solved with a transplant from one of his family members. The Saeds completed the lengthy refugee application process but never made the trip to the U.S. Their travel documents expired during legal wrangling over President Donald Trump's executive orders to limit the refugee program and ban travel from several countries, including Somalia. (Courtesy of Mohamoud Saed via AP)
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Somalian refugee Mohamoud Saed sits for a portrait in Clarkston, Ga., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Saed, who was a doctor in Somalia before he fled the nation's civil war, anxiously awaits the arrival of his wife and eight children while struggling with kidney issues that he hopes could be solved with a transplant from one of his family members. The Saeds completed the lengthy refugee application process but never made the trip to the U.S. Their travel documents expired during legal wrangling over President Donald Trump's executive orders to limit the refugee program and ban travel from several countries, including Somalia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Mohamoud Saed, a refugee from Somalia, helps out in a friend's clothing store in Clarkston, Ga., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Saed, who was a doctor in Somalia before he fled the nation's civil war, anxiously awaits the arrival of his wife and eight children while struggling with kidney issues that he hopes could be solved with a transplant from one of his family members. The Saeds completed the lengthy refugee application process but never made the trip to the U.S. Their travel documents expired during legal wrangling over President Donald Trump's executive orders to limit the refugee program and ban travel from several countries, including Somalia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Somalian refugee Mohamoud Saed sits for a portrait in Clarkston, Ga., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Saed, who was a doctor in Somalia before he fled the nation's civil war, anxiously awaits the arrival of his wife and eight children while struggling with kidney issues that he hopes could be solved with a transplant from one of his family members. The Saeds completed the lengthy refugee application process but never made the trip to the U.S. Their travel documents expired during legal wrangling over President Donald Trump's executive orders to limit the refugee program and ban travel from several countries, including Somalia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Somalian refugee Mohamoud Saed sits for a portrait in Clarkston, Ga., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Saed, who was a doctor in Somalia before he fled the nation's civil war, anxiously awaits the arrival of his wife and eight children while struggling with kidney issues that he hopes could be solved with a transplant from one of his family members. The Saeds completed the lengthy refugee application process but never made the trip to the U.S. Their travel documents expired during legal wrangling over President Donald Trump's executive orders to limit the refugee program and ban travel from several countries, including Somalia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this Feb. 26, 2017 photo, a U.S. Coast Guardsman performs a medical check on a drug trafficking suspect transferred from the USCG cutter Mohawk to the USCG cutter Stratton, in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Those taken into custody for smuggling are issued white hazmat suits, given health exams and then led into a converted helicopter hangar aboard the Stratton, where they are shackled to the floor and issued a wool blanket, toiletries and a cot or a foam mat. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
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Illustration on fixing health care by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency
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FILE - This May 2, 2017 file photo shows Baltimore Orioles' Zach Britton pitching during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Boston. Britton is preparing for a much longer stay on the disabled list this time around after returning too quickly from a forearm injury. “I can’t confirm the exact number of days,” Britton told The Associated Press on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
