2018 Day 700: Trump won't sign the funding measure to avoid a partial government shutdown without border wall money; the acting attorney general declined to recuse himself from the Russia investigation; Trump's pick for attorney general criticized Mueller's obstruction of justice investigation in an unsolicited memo he sent to the Justice Department in June; and Trump's 2016 campaign and his 2020 reelection campaign used a shell company to buy ads in alleged illegal coordination with the NRA. Dec 20, 2018
2019 Day 1065: Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney is expected to leave his position after the Senate impeachment trial; Trump once told White House officials that he believed Ukraine — not Russia — interfered in the 2016 election because "Putin told me"; the federal prosecutor scrutinizing the Russia investigation is examining former CIA director John Brennan's role surrounding the intelligence community's assessment that Russian interfered in the 2016 election; and an evangelical Christian magazine called Trump "a near perfect example of a human being who is morally lost and confused." Dec 20, 2019
2022 Day 700: The Jan. 6 Committee is cooperating with the Justice Department's investigation into Trump; congressional leaders reached an agreement on a $1.7 trillion spending package to fund the government through September; the U.S. Postal Service will buy at least 66,000 electric delivery trucks by 2028 as part of a push to transform its delivery fleet; the Supreme Court blocked a pandemic-era border policy from ending this week; and the House Ways and Means Committee is expected to vote this afternoon on whether to publicly release Trump's tax returns. Dec 20, 2022
2023 Day 1065: Trump doubled down on his racist and xenophobic comments that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” and rebuffed bipartisan criticism that his rhetoric echos Hitler; Biden said there's “no question” that Trump supported the Jan. 6 insurrection, a day after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump was disqualified from the state’s 2024 ballot; and Trump urged the Supreme Court to hold off on deciding whether he is entitled to immunity from federal criminal charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Dec 20, 2023
2024 Day 1431: The House rejected the Trump-endorsed plan to fund the government and avert a shutdown after 38 Republicans joined 197 Democrats in voting against the alternative funding bill; with less than 12 hours left before a shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans plan to break up their previously agreed to bipartisan funding bill into three separate votes; after blowing up the bipartisan funding bill at the 11th hour, Trump said any government shutdown “is a Biden problem to solve”; and Elon Musk publicly endorsed the Alternative for Germany, a far-right, anti-immigration party that’s promoted neo-Nazi rhetoric. Dec 20, 2024