On This Day: December 22

4 posts spanning 2017–2025

2017

• Day 337 Dec 22, 2017

2020

• Day 1433: U.S. deaths are expected to top 3 million for the first time, making this the deadliest year in U.S. history; the Senate approved more than $900 billion in emergency economic relief; Trump met privately with a group of congressional Republicans at the White House in preparation of a final effort to overturn the election results; Russian hackers accessed dozens of email accounts used by senior officials at the Treasury Department; and Trump’s longtime banker at Deutsche Bank resigned and will leave the bank next week. Dec 22, 2020

2021

• Day 337: The Biden administration extended the pause on federal student loan payments until May 1, 2022; Pfizer's new pill to treat COVID-19 received emergency use authorization from the FDA; corporate donations to Manchin's PAC surged as he fought against Biden's agenda; the Jan. 6 committee requested Jim Jordan's text messages with Trump; a judge rejected Michael Flynn's attempt to prevent the committee from obtaining his Jan. 6 phone records; and a member of the Proud Boys pleaded guilty for his role in the Capitol riot. Dec 22, 2021

2025

• Day 1798: On Friday, the Justice Department released a limited batch of records from its Jeffrey Epstein investigations, conceding it didn’t meet the legal deadline to disclose the full file as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act; on Saturday, the Justice Department temporarily removed at least 15 files from its public “Epstein files” site, including an image that showed a photo of Trump with Epstein, Melania Trump, and Ghislaine Maxwell, before later restoring that Trump-related image; on Sunday, JD Vance refused to condemn antisemitism in the conservative movement, saying there should be no “purity tests” beyond "love America"; the U.S. military launched retaliatory strikes on more than 70 suspected Islamic State targets in Syria; CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss pulled a fully produced “60 Minutes” investigation into alleged abuses at El Salvador’s CECOT prison hours before it was set to air; and the Trump administration on stopped federal leases for five offshore wind projects already under construction along the East Coast, citing unspecified national security risks. Dec 22, 2025