2019 Day 726: Trump discussed withdrawing the U.S. from NATO; a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to remove a citizenship question from the 2020 census; Trump ordered thousands of furloughed federal employees back to work without pay to limit the impact of the shutdown; Trump's Attorney General nominee William Barr faced questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing; and Trump served fast food to Clemson football players. Jan 15, 2019
2020 Day 1091: The House of Representatives voted to send the Senate two articles of impeachment against Trump; Rudy Giuliani requested a private meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky – then the president-elect of Ukraine – with Trump's "knowledge and consent"; four Republicans will vote with Democrats to invoke Congress' war powers and limit Trump's ability to conduct further military actions against Iran; and Trump signed the "phase one" trade deal with China. Jan 15, 2020
2021 Day 1457: Federal prosecutors said there was "strong evidence" the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol planned to "capture and assassinate elected officials"; Secret Service officers evacuated Pence from the Senate chamber moments before the violent mob that stormed the Capitol reached the second-floor landing in the Senate; more than two million people have died from the coronavirus worldwide; coronavirus vaccine reserves were already exhausted when the Trump administration promised to release additional doses; the CDC warned that the U.K. variant of the coronavirus could become the predominant strain in the United States by March; and Trump will leave Washington hours before Biden’s inauguration and fly to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to begin his post-presidential life. Jan 15, 2021
2025 Day 1457: Israel and Hamas agreed to a 42-day ceasefire; a recap of today’s Trump’s Cabinet confirmation hearings; Senator Joni Ernst announced her support for Pete Hegseth’s nomination as defense secretary; inflation rose to 2.9% in December, driven by higher gas and egg prices, while core inflation, excluding volatile food and energy costs, declined to 3.2%; Biden will deliver his last Oval Office address to the nation at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, reflecting on his political career that spanned over 50 years and the accomplishments of his presidency; Biden’s approval rating stands at 36%; 44% of Americans view Trump favorably; and about 2 in 10 Americans are highly confident that the Justice Department and FBI will act fairly during Trump’s second term. Jan 15, 2025
2026 Day 1822: Trump threatened to “institute the INSURRECTION ACT” after an ICE officer shot a Venezuelan man in the leg during an arrest; Trump delayed a decision on U.S. strikes on Iran after senior advisers warned him that even a large-scale attack was unlikely to topple the regime and risked wider regional retaliation; María Corina Machado presented Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize for peaceful pro-democracy activism weeks after Trump ordered military raid that captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro; several NATO allies began deploying small numbers of troops to Greenland after U.S. talks resulted in a “fundamental disagreement” over Greenland’s future; Trump announced what he called “The Great Healthcare Plan” and urged Congress to “pass this framework into law without delay,” but the White House released only a high-level outline with no legislative text, no cost estimates, no eligibility rules, no enforcement mechanisms, and no timeline for implementation; and more than half of the 24 members of Congress who are 80 or older have decided to run again. Jan 15, 2026