2019 Day 750: The acting attorney general claimed he has not spoken to Trump about Robert Mueller's investigation; Mueller's team accused Paul Manafort of lying to them about "an extremely sensitive issue" in hopes of increasing "his chances for a pardon"; Rod Rosenstein privately complained that Trump ordered him to write the memo justifying the firing of James Comey; and Ivanka Trump has "zero concerns" about any of her "loved ones" being caught up in Mueller's Russia investigation. Feb 8, 2019
2021 Day 20: The coronavirus variant first found in the U.K. is spreading rapidly across the U.S.; the House asked the Biden administration to release documents related to the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic; congressional Democrats are expected to propose providing up to $3,600 per child to families as part of Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package; Biden’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour would result in 1.4 million job losses, but lift 900,000 Americans out of poverty by 2025 and raise the income for 17 million people; Biden, citing Trump's "erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection," said Trump should not receive intelligence briefings; and Trump's attorneys argued that the insurrection at the Capitol was perpetrated by people “of their own accord and for their own reasons” and not because Trump called on them to march on Congress and “fight like hell.” Feb 8, 2021
2022 Day 385: The House is scheduled to vote on a short-term funding bill to avert a shutdown; the Supreme Court allowed a congressional map drawn by Alabama Republicans to remain in place despite a lower court saying the map violated the Voting Rights Act; Mitch McConnell criticized the Republican National Committee for censuring two Republican lawmakers who serve on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol; Biden’s top science adviser resigned after he acknowledged he mistreated demeaned his subordinates; Biden threatened to “bring an end” to the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline if Russia invades Ukraine; and fewer than 1 in 5 people in the U.S. say the country is doing "the right amount to combat climate change." Feb 8, 2022
2023 Day 750: Biden’s address to Congress highlighted his accomplishments on job growth, infrastructure, climate, drug price cuts for seniors, and consumer protections in his first two years in the White House; Hakeem Jeffries suggested that Republicans who heckled Biden during the State of the Union address are unfit to serve in Congress; Mitt Romney told George Santos “you don’t belong here” before Biden’s State of the Union address; the Labor Department’s internal watchdog identified “at least $191 billion” in misspent pandemic unemployment benefits; the U.S. intelligence community said China's spy balloon was part of a global surveillance program designed to collect information about the military capabilities of countries around the world; and 35% of Americans say they are better off now than they were a year ago. Feb 8, 2023
2024 Day 1115: The Senate advanced a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan after Republicans rejected a version of the bill that included the border policy changes they had demanded; the EPA set strict, new limits on one of the deadliest types of air pollution; the special counsel examining Biden's handling of classified documents recommended “no criminal charges,” but did find evidence that Biden had "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials"; the FCC outlawed unwanted robocalls generated by artificial intelligence; and the Supreme Court appeared broadly skeptical that Colorado had the power to disqualify Trump from the ballot for engaging in an insurrection in an attempt to remain in the White House after losing the 2020 election. Feb 8, 2024
2025 Day 1481: A federal judge temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the Treasury Department payment systems and ordered the destruction of “any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems”; a U.S. Treasury threat intelligence report labeled Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency staff "the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced"; Elon Musk will rehire Marko Elez, who resigned from the Department of Government Efficiency after his past tweets advocating racism and eugenics; a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from placing 2,700 USAID employees on leave and ordered the reinstatement of 500 others; Trump fired Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub, but she's refused to step down; Trump revoked Biden’s security clearance; and Trump will sign an executive order reversing Biden’s "ridiculous" plan to phase out single-use plastic straws by 2027. Feb 8, 2025