2019 Day 817: House Democrats subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for Trump's personal and financial records; White House officials who cooperated with Robert Mueller at the direction of Trump's legal team are worried the redacted report will expose them as the source of damaging information about Trump; The House Judiciary Committee requested information about Trump's reported offer to pardon the Customs and Border Protection Commissioner if he was sent to jail for blocking asylum seekers from entering the U.S.; and Trump ordered thousands of additional troops to the southwest border. Apr 16, 2019
2020 Day 1183: Trump's new federal guidelines for opening up the country will put the onus on governors to decide how and when to restart their economies; Trump administration officials warned against cutting funding to the World Health Organization; more than 5.2 million Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance last week; Trump threatened to adjourn both chambers of Congress if the Senate doesn't confirm his nominees for various openings across his administration; and the EPA will weaken regulations on mercury and other air pollutants released from oil and coal-fired power plants. Apr 16, 2020
2021 Day 87: Biden will keep Trump's historically low refugee admissions target at 15,000; the Biden administration will spend $1.7 billion to track coronavirus variants; police officers and public officials donated money to Kyle Rittenhouse, who stands accused of murdering two protesters last August; a founding member of the Oath Keepers arrested in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate; and 59% of Americans approve of the way Biden is handling his job as president. Apr 16, 2021
2024 Day 1183: The House will vote on three individual bills to fund Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan; a second Republican agreed to co-sponsor an effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson from his job, less than 24 hours after Johnson outlined a plan to send aid to Ukraine and Israel; House Republicans sent articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate; the Supreme Court allowed Idaho to temporarily enforce a strict statewide ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender teenagers; the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the federal obstruction law that the Justice Department used to charge more than 350 pro-Trump rioters involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol; and on the second day of jury selection in Trump’s election interference case involving falsified business records to conceal a hush money payment late in the 2016 campaign, prosecutors moved to hold Trump in contempt for allegedly violating his gag order. Apr 16, 2024
2025 Day 1548: A federal judge said he found “probable cause” to hold the Trump administration "in criminal contempt" for its “willful disregard” for his order directing officials to turn around planes carrying deportees to an El Salvador prison; the Justice Department will appeal a federal judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to help return Kilmar Abrego Garcia; Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned that Trump’s tariffs are “significantly larger than anticipated” and “highly likely” to drive up inflation while slowing growth; California sued to block Trump’s tariffs, calling them illegal and economically destructive; White House eliminated the wire service spot from the press pool, effectively sidelining The Associated Press after losing a federal case over "viewpoint discrimination"; the Trump administration will ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in funds for NPR and PBS; and the Justice Department sued Maine over its refusal to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports. Apr 16, 2025
2026 Day 1913: The Republican-controlled House rejected a Democratic war powers resolution ordering Trump to end the war with Iran; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recited a fake prayer from a fictional movie during a Pentagon prayer service; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended Trump’s proposed 12% cut to the Health and Human Services budget; RFK Jr. once pulled over on Interstate 684 in New York and cut the penis off a road-killed raccoon to “study them later” while “my kids waited patiently in the car”; the House passed a bipartisan bill to restore Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Haitians in the U.S. for three years; a federal fine arts panel gave preliminary approval to Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery; and a federal judge – again – blocked above-ground construction of Trump’s White House ballroom, ruling that the administration could continue only below-ground work tied to national security facilities. Apr 16, 2026