On This Day: January 24

6 posts spanning 2017–2024

2017

• Day 5 Jan 24, 2017

2018

• Day 370 Jan 24, 2018

2019

• Day 735: The Senate failed to advance a pair of proposals to reopen the government; Trump won't deliver the State of the Union during the shutdown after all; Trump's commerce secretary doesn't understand why unpaid federal workers aren't taking out loans; and the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena for Michael Cohen to testify. Jan 24, 2019

2020

• Day 1100: House managers used their final day of opening arguments to conclude their presentation on Trump's alleged abuse of power and obstruction of Congress; Trump complained that his impeachment defense "will be forced to start on Saturday," which he called "Death Valley in T.V."; Trump appeared to order two Rudy Giuliani associates to "get rid" of then-US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during a dinner in April 2018 at the Trump International Hotel; and the Pentagon said 34 U.S. service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. Jan 24, 2020

2022

• Day 370: The Pentagon put 8,500 American troops on “high alert” as NATO and the U.S. prepare for a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine; a draft executive order prepared for Trump would have authorized the secretary of defense to have National Guard troops seize voting machines following the 2020 election; a Fulton County Superior Court judge granted a request to seat a special grand jury to investigate Trump's efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results; a federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s Covid-19 vaccine requirement for federal employees; the Supreme Court agreed to reconsider race-based affirmative action in college admissions; and 72% of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction. Jan 24, 2022

2024

• Day 1100: Trump won New Hampshire’s primary, defeating Nikki Haley and advancing closer to the Republican nomination; the United Auto Workers endorsed Biden for president; a record 21.3 million Americans signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces; the Justice Department urged the Supreme Court preserve full access to a widely used abortion pill; and more than 64,500 pregnancies have resulted from rape in the 14 states that banned abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Jan 24, 2024