2021 Day 1454: Trump refused to take responsibility for inciting the deadly riot at the Capitol, offered no regrets, and defended his pre-riot speech as "totally appropriate"; Mitch McConnell indicated that he believes Trump committed impeachable offenses; Two days before the riot at the Capitol, the FBI warned that extremists were traveling to Washington to commit violence and "war"; Capitol Police briefed House Democrats about three more planned demonstrations in the coming days; and Trump declared a state of emergency in Washington, D.C., citing the “emergency conditions” surrounding Biden’s inauguration. Jan 12, 2021
2022 Day 358: The White House will provide 10 million free coronavirus tests a month to U.S. schools to help keep classes in person; inflation increased 7% in 2021; the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack asked Kevin McCarthy to voluntarily provide information about his communications with Trump and Mark Meadows; the Jan. 6 committee issued subpoenas to two of Trump Jr.'s advisers; Trump abruptly ended an interview with NPR after he was pressed on his baseless claims of election fraud and repeated lies that the 2020 election was “rigged”; and Mitch McConnell called Biden's speech on changing the filibuster to pass voting rights and elections legislation "profoundly unpresidential." Jan 12, 2022
2023 Day 723: Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the classified government records discovered at Biden's private home and office; Kevin McCarthy suggested that the House would consider expunging one or both Trump impeachments; Kevin McCarthy defended George Santos despite the freshman lawmaker admitting to lying about his background; U.S. inflation fell to 6.5% in December compared with a year earlier; Alabama’s attorney general suggested that a pregnant person could be prosecuted for taking abortion pills despite the Biden administration expanding access to the drugs; and Republican legislators in Virginia introduced a bill to count a pregnant person's fetus as a passenger in the car pool lane on highways. Jan 12, 2023
2026 Day 1819: The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and served the Fed with grand jury subpoenas threatening a criminal indictment; the Justice Department fired a senior prosecutor over a disagreement about whether to pursue a re-indictment of former FBI Director James Comey; Trump is reportedly considering a military strike on Iran to punish the regime for killing hundreds of protesters; Trump said he regrets not ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines after his loss in the 2020 presidential election; a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from freezing more than $10 billion in child care and social services funding for five Democratic-led states; the EPA will stop assigning a dollar value to lives saved and other health benefits when setting air pollution rules; 52% of Americans disapprove of ICE; 45% of Americans identified as political independents in 2025 – the highest level recorded; and a San Francisco man who helped invent psychedelic rock and spent six decades playing guitar turning a long, strange trip into a shared cultural experience died at 78. Jan 12, 2026