2019 Day 802: Senior Trump administration officials overturned and granted at least 25 security clearances to people who were initially denied; the House Judiciary Committee plans to vote to authorize subpoenas to obtain Robert Mueller's full report; Trump called the 2020 census "meaningless" if it doesn't include a citizenship question that two federal judges have already ruled against; and Trump plans to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign assistance programs for Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Apr 1, 2019
2020 Day 1168: The national emergency stockpile of respirator masks, gloves, and other medical supplies is nearly exhausted; the Trump administration will not reopen the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace to allow uninsured Americans to purchase health care coverage during the coronavirus pandemic; Pence blamed the CDC and China for Trump's delayed response to the coronavirus pandemic; Trump and Mitch McConnell both claimed that the Senate impeachment trial "diverted the attention of the government" from the coronavirus; and White House economists published a study in September that warned a pandemic could kill a half million Americans and devastate the economy. Apr 1, 2020
2021 Day 72: The Texas Senate passed new voting restrictions in the state; Georgia's Republican-controlled House stripped Delta Air Lines of a tax break worth tens of millions of dollars as punishment for its CEO's criticism of the state's new voting restrictions; about 15 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine were accidentally ruined; Biden asked Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to conduct a review of his legal authority to cancel student debt; and another 719,000 people applied for unemployment benefits. Apr 1, 2021
2024 Day 1168: The Biden administration authorized another weapons transfer to Israel despite public frustration with Israel’s conduct in the war and opposition to Israel’s planned invasion of Rafah; Trump posted a video to his personal social media website depicting Biden with his hands and feet tied together in the back of a pickup truck; Biden proclaimed March 31 Transgender Day of Visibility; Republicans attacked Biden for issuing the proclamation because it coincided with Easter (which varies from year to year); and the Manhattan district attorney asked the judge overseeing Trump’s criminal hush money trial to expand the gag order to stop Trump from attacking family members of people involved in the case. Apr 1, 2024
2025 Day 1533: The Trump administration laid off 10,000 federal health workers across the CDC, FDA, NIH, and other health agencies, in a disorganized and legally questionable effort by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to downsize the Department of Health and Human Services; 23 states and Washington, DC sued the Trump administration over its decision to rescind $11 billion in federal public health funding; voters in Wisconsin and Florida headed to the polls today in the first major elections of Trump’s second term; Cory Booker used a marathon speech on the Senate floor to protest what he called a “crisis” under the Trump administration; and the Trump administration admitted that immigration officials mistakenly deported a legally protected Maryland resident to a prison in El Salvador. Apr 1, 2025