2018 Day 701: A partial shutdown is assured after House lawmakers left the Capitol for the night without passing a budget agreement; Trump compared his wall to the invention of "the wheel"; the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can't reject asylum bids by immigrants who illegally cross the border; and Trump complained that it's unfair he is being blamed for the market's downturn. Dec 21, 2018
2020 Day 1432: Trump discussed appointing a lawyer who promoted conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines as a special counsel to investigate nonexistent voter fraud; Attorney General William Barr said he saw "no basis now for seizing [voting] machines" and that he would not appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations of voter fraud; Trump's campaign filed a petition with the Supreme Court to overturn three separate Pennsylvania Supreme Court decisions related to mail-in ballots; Barr and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo both blamed the Russians for the SolarWinds hack that compromised at least a half dozen federal agencies; Trump, however, suggested it "may be China"; and Congress reached an agreement on a $900 billion coronavirus stimulus package. Dec 21, 2020
2022 Day 701: The Biden administration announced a new $1.85 billion military assistance package for Ukraine to counter the Russia’s invasion; the House Ways and Means Committee voted to make six years of Trump’s tax returns public; the IRS failed to audit Trump during his first two years in office despite a "mandatory" program that requires annual audits of a president’s tax returns; a former White House aide to Trump told the Jan. 6 Committee that he witnessed Trump "tearing" documents; and the Jan. 6 Committee said it has evidence that the top ethics attorney in the Trump White House advised Cassidy Hutchinson to give misleading testimony. Dec 21, 2022