The White House was placed on lockdown on Monday for the second time in less than a week after Secret Service responded to a suspicious package on Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Reporters at the White House were ushered into the briefing room a short time after 11 a.m., though they were not given any information at the time.

Secret Service then tweeted that officers were responding to a suspicious package and that pedestrian traffic was closed along Pennsylvania Avenue outside the building and in Lafayette Park.

Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers are responding to an incident involving a suspicious package located on Pennsylvania Ave. Pedestrian traffic is closed along Pennsylvania Ave. between 15th and 17th streets to include Lafayette Park. pic.twitter.com/t7veePoDb7 — U.S. Secret Service (@SecretService) June 24, 2019

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The Secret Service tweeted at about 12:30 p.m. that the package had been cleared. The lockdown was lifted a short time later.

UPDATE: The package along Pennsylvania Ave. has been declared safe by Secret Service and @DCPoliceDept. Pedestrian road closures will be lifted shortly. — U.S. Secret Service (@SecretService) June 24, 2019

Monday's incident was the second time in a span of less than a week that reporters at the White House were urged to remain inside the building.

The White House and nearby Lafayette Park were briefly placed on lockdown on Wednesday after an individual allegedly dropped a backpack and attempted to jump a bike rack near the perimeter of the building on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Trump was not at the White House at the time of that episode.

Updated at 12:44 p.m.