2019 Day 770: Trump and Kim Jong-Un abruptly ended their summit over nuclear disarmament; Trump ordered John Kelly to grant Jared Kushner a top-secret security clearance last year; the D.C. attorney general's office subpoenaed Trump's inaugural committee; the House Intelligence Committee intends to call the Trump Organization's chief financial officer to testify; and the House Oversight Committee plans to interview Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump. Feb 28, 2019
2020 Day 1135: A federal appeals court blocked Trump's “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy; Mick Mulvaney suggested that Americans ignore the media’s coverage of the coronavirus; the Trump administration is considering a tax cut package as part of the White House’s economic response to the coronavirus outbreak after all three major U.S. stock indexes suffered their worst weekly decline since the 2008 financial crisis; and a federal appeals court ruled that former White House counsel Donald McGahn does not have to comply with a subpoena seeking his testimony. Feb 28, 2020
2022 Day 405: The Biden administration increased financial pressure on Russia and expelled Russian U.N. diplomats in response to the invasion of Ukraine; the California "freedom convoy" disbanded after a single day; two GOP lawmakers spoke at a white nationalist conference; and Trump appealed a judge's ruling that would require him to testify about his company's business practices. Feb 28, 2022
2024 Day 1135: Mitch McConnell will step down as the Senate Republican leader in November; the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether Trump is immune from prosecution for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election to remain in power; a New York judge ordered Trump to pay his full $454 million civil fraud penalty before he can proceed with an appeal; Biden and Trump won their party’s Michigan primary elections, but Biden faced opposition from voters over his support for Israel’s military campaign in Gaza; Israel and Hamas both rejected Biden's optimism that a hostage-for-ceasefire deal in Gaza could come as soon as next week; Congress reached a deal to extend government funding for one week and avoid a partial shutdown; and Senate Republicans blocked passage of a bill to protect access to in vitro fertilization nationwide. Feb 28, 2024
2026 Day 1866: The U.S. and Israel launched “massive and ongoing” “major combat operations” in Iran; Iranian state media said Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes; Democrats said they’ll try to force votes on War Powers resolutions to limit Trump’s authority to continue U.S. military action against Iran; Trump ordered federal agencies to “immediately cease” using Anthropic’s Claude AI model after the company insisted on enforceable limits against fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance; and OpenAI reached an agreement with the Pentagon to deploy its AI models on classified Defense Department networks. Feb 28, 2026