2019 Day 803: Trump abandoned his plans to dismantle the Affordable Care Act; Trump walked back his threat to close the southwestern border; and Trump blamed Puerto Rico for being "a mess" and called its politicians "incompetent or corrupt" after the Senate blocked billions of dollars in disaster aid. Apr 2, 2019
2020 Day 1169: More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week; the coronavirus has infected 1 million people globally; the Trump administration is expected to urge all Americans to wear cloth masks or other face coverings in public to prevent the spread of the coronavirus; an unclassified Army briefing document on the coronavirus from Feb. 3 projected that "between 80,000 and 150,000 could die"; the Navy relieved the captain who sounded the alarm about an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt; and the Secret Service signed a $45,000 contract this week to rent a fleet of golf carts in Northern Virginia – home to one of Trump’s golf clubs. Apr 2, 2020
2021 Day 73: One U.S. Capitol Police officer was killed and another hospitalized after a man rammed his car into a security checkpoint outside the Capitol; the CDC relaxed its travel guidance, saying Americans fully vaccinated against Covid-19 can resume domestic and overseas travel “at low risk to themselves”; more than 171,000 migrants were taken into custody along the U.S. southern border in March; Major League Baseball pulled its All-Star Game out of Atlanta due to Georgia's restrictive new voting law; and the U.S. and Iran agreed to resume negotiations on restoring the 2015 nuclear agreement. Apr 2, 2021
2024 Day 1169: An Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers, leading to the World Central Kitchen charity suspending delivery of 240 tons of food to Gaza, where famine is imminent; Florida’s Supreme Court ruled that the state’s constitution does not protect abortion rights, allowing the state’s six-week abortion ban to take effect May 1; a New York judge expanded Trump’s gag order to stop him from attacking family members of those involved in the criminal hush money case; Trump posted a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case; Trump's net worth fell by more than $1 billion, as shares of his MAGA meme stock social media company plunged 21.5%; and a group of House Republicans introduced a bill to rename D.C.’s Dulles International Airport to the Donald J. Trump International Airport. Apr 2, 2024
2025 Day 1534: Trump imposed a 10% blanket tariff on all U.S. imports and steeper country-specific “reciprocal tariffs” on about 60 countries, bypassing Congress and invoking emergency powers to justify what he called “economic independence”; Trump pressured Senate Republicans to block a resolution that would nullify his emergency declaration used to impose tariffs on Canadian goods; liberal Judge Susan Crawford won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, defeating conservative Brad Schimel despite $25 million in backing from Elon Musk; Trump told aides and members of his Cabinet that Elon Musk will soon leave his White House role – likely when his 130-day appointment ends in late May; and Trump is considering a deal to avoid a TikTok ban that would let China’s ByteDance keep control of the app’s algorithm by leasing it to a U.S. spinoff. Apr 2, 2025