On This Day: December 10

6 posts spanning 2018–2025

2018

• Day 690 Dec 10, 2018

2019

• Day 1055: The House Judiciary Committee introduced two articles of impeachment against Trump; Trump and Mitch McConnell are divided over the Senate impeachment trial; Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said "politics can and should influence foreign policy"; Attorney General William Barr believes the FBI operated out of "bad faith" and "clearly spied upon" on the Trump campaign; and Trump attacked FBI Director Christopher Wray for embracing the Justice Department inspector general's conclusions that the FBI was justified in opening an investigation into Trump's 2016 campaign. Dec 10, 2019

2020

• Day 1421: The United States recorded more than 3,100 COVID-19 deaths in a single day; CDC Director Robert Redfield directed staff to delete an email from a Trump political appointee attempting to meddle with the agency’s scientific report on the coronavirus’s risk to children; an FDA advisory panel recommended the approval of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in people over 16 years old; new unemployment claims rose to 853,000 last week; Mitch McConnell told House and Senate leadership that Senate Republicans would not support a $908 billion bipartisan coronavirus relief proposal; all 50 states and the District of Columbia certified their presidential results; and More than two dozen states filed motions with the Supreme Court opposing Texas' bid to invalidate Biden's win in Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Dec 10, 2020

2021

• Day 325: The Supreme Court allowed abortion providers in Texas to challenge the new state law that essentially bans abortions after about six weeks; a federal appeals court rejected Trump’s effort to stop the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol from obtaining his White House records; the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued six new subpoenas to people involved in the planning of the rally that preceded the insurrection; the New York attorney general is seeking to depose Trump early next year as part of her investigation into potential fraud inside the Trump Organization; and inflation hit a 39-year high in November. Dec 10, 2021

2024

• Day 1421: Trump’s first term Justice Department secretly obtained phone and text message records from two members of Congress, 43 staffers – including Kash Patel, his pick to lead the FBI – and eight journalists; Trump’s “border czar” promised that mass deportation efforts would “start right here in Chicago” immediately after Trump’s inauguration; a group of 77 Nobel laureates urged Senate lawmakers to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services; and New York Attorney General Letitia James denied Trump’s request to dismiss the $486 million civil fraud judgment against him. Dec 10, 2024

2025

• Day 1786: During Trump’s first stop on his “affordability” tour in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, he claimed he’s "crushing it" on inflation and delivering “lower prices” and “bigger paychecks”; U.S. farmers say Trump’s new $12 billion aid package falls short of their projected $35 billion to $44 billion in losses on major crops; the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point to a range of 3.5 to 3.75%, the third reduction this year; the House passed a $900 billion defense bill that eliminates Pentagon diversity, equity and inclusion offices, cuts $1.6 billion in climate programs, and writes several of Trump’s executive orders into law; the U.S. seized a sanctioned oil tanker loaded with Venezuelan crude off the country’s coast; a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to end its deployment of California National Guard troops in Los Angeles; the Department of Homeland Security will buy six Boeing 737 jets to build its own deportation fleet for ICE for roughly $140 million; the Trump administration plans to require tourists from 42 countries to disclose five years of social media history before entering the U.S.; a third federal judge ordered the release of grand jury transcripts and other investigative records from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 federal sex trafficking case; Democrats won Miami’s mayoral runoff and flipped a Republican-held Georgia state House seat; and nearly half of Americans said they struggle to afford groceries, utilities, health care, housing, and transportation, and half said they find it difficult to pay for food. Dec 10, 2025