2019 Day 743: Trump called negotiating with Congress over his border wall "a waste of time" (again), brushed off the Russia investigation and claimed that Rod Rosenstein told him he was not a target in the probe, dismissed the importance of the proposed Trump Tower his team was trying to build in Moscow during the 2016 campaign, denied he ever spoke with Roger Stone about WikiLeaks and the stolen Democratic emails, and insisted that he played no role in Jared Kushner receiving a security clearance despite concerns by both the FBI and CIA. Feb 1, 2019
2021 Day 13: The Biden administration reached a $231 million deal for 8.5 million at-home, over-the-counter Covid-19 rapid tests; a group of 10 Republican senators proposed a $618 billion coronavirus relief plan; Biden is reportedly open to scaling down his $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package but the $618 billion GOP counterproposal is "not going to scratch the itch"; the Congressional Budget Office projected that the economy will recover to its pre-pandemic size by the middle of 2021 but the unemployment rate will remain above its pre-pandemic levels through the rest of this decade; Trump's five impeachment lawyers quit after he wanted his defense to focus on his baseless claim that the election was stolen from him; a New York judge ordered Trump's tax firm to turn over documents to New York Attorney General Letitia James; and House Democrats introduced a resolution to force Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her two committee assignments for her inflammatory and false statements. Feb 1, 2021
2022 Day 378: Joe Manchin called Biden’s $2 trillion Build Back Better plan “dead”; at least 4 million people quit or changed jobs in December; the U.S. daily death toll from Covid-19 rose to an average of more than 2,400 fatalities over the previous seven days; Pfizer asked the FDA to authorize their Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 6 months to 5 years; Trump was directly involved in plans to use the federal government to seize voting machines after he lost the 2020 election; Trump called on the Jan. 6 committee to investigate why Pence did not reject electoral college votes from several states that Biden won; and some of the Trump White House documents preserved by the National Archives had been ripped up and then taped back together. Feb 1, 2022
2023 Day 743: The FBI conducted a "planned search" of Biden’s beach house in Delaware, but found no documents with classified markings; the College Board revised its framework for an Advanced Placement African American studies course following criticism from Gov. Ron DeSantis; George Santos will temporarily step down from his two congressional committees; the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter-point; and Biden will end the Covid-19 national and public health emergencies in May. Feb 1, 2023
2024 Day 1108: The House passed a bipartisan tax package that pairs a temporary expansion of the child tax credit with a trio of business tax breaks; Biden signed an executive order to impose new sanctions on four Israeli settlers involved in violent attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank; the U.S. carried out airstrikes against a drone ground control station belonging to the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen; and Trump’s lawsuit over the dossier that alleged he engaged in “perverted sexual acts” and paid bribes to Russian officials was dismissed by a British High Court judge. Feb 1, 2024