On This Day: January 30

7 posts spanning 2017–2025

2017

• Day 11 Jan 30, 2017

2018

• Day 376 Jan 30, 2018

2019

• Day 741: Trump attacked the U.S. intelligence community; Trump met Putin at the G20 summit in November without staff members present; Trump Jr. met with a firm in that gamed out how a foreign government could meddle in the U.S. political process after Trump won the Republican nomination; and Russians leaked more than 1,000 files Robert Mueller's office shared confidentially with indicted Russian hackers. Jan 30, 2019

2020

• Day 1106: The Senate reconvened for the final day of written questions; Mitch McConnell indicated he has the votes to defeat an motion to consider new witnesses; Trump's legal team contradicted Trump's Justice Department, making the opposite argument in court on the same day; the Trump administration will allow states to cap Medicaid spending; Trump’s commerce secretary said the Chinese coronavirus “will help to accelerate the return of jobs” to the U.S.; a section of Trump’s new border wall in California fell over; and lawyers for a woman who accused Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a sample of Trump's DNA. Jan 30, 2020

2023

• Day 741: A sixth Memphis police officer “has been relieved of duty” for his involvement in the beating and subsequent death of Tyre Nichols by police officers; Biden and Kevin McCarthy will meet Wednesday to discuss a “reasonable and responsible way" to lift the debt ceiling and avert a U.S. default; the Supreme Court didn't disclose its longstanding financial ties with the person tasked with independently validating the investigation into the leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade; the Biden administration proposed ending a Trump-era exemption that allowed employer-provided health plans to exclude coverage of birth control on moral grounds; and Trump, calling Ron DeSantis "very disloyal," claimed that the Florida governor is “trying to rewrite history” about the state's Covid-19 response. Jan 30, 2023

2024

• Day 1106: Republicans – who have for months insisted on changes to border and migration policy as a condition of approving any additional aid to Ukraine – declared that the bipartisan Senate-proposed border deal would be “dead on arrival” in the House; the Illinois State Board of Elections voted unanimously to dismiss an effort seeking to disqualify Trump from the state’s primary ballot; a federal appeals court rejected a request to review a ruling that threatens to make it harder to enforce the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination in the election process; and Trump called the United Auto Workers president a “dope” and called for his removal after the union endorsed Biden. Jan 30, 2024

2025

• Day 1472: Trump blamed diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, Obama, and Biden for the midair collision over the Potomac River that killed all 67 on board; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refused to disavow the debunked link between vaccines and autism; Trump’s nominee for FBI director denied plans for retribution, downplayed past promotion of conspiracy theories, refused to acknowledge that Biden won the 2020 election, and resisted Democratic efforts to portray him as a political loyalist unfit to lead the bureau; Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, faced bipartisan scrutiny in her Senate confirmation hearing, over her refusal to label Edward Snowden a "traitor" and her shifting stance on surveillance laws; Trump promised to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports beginning Feb. 1; the U.S. economy expanded at a 2.3% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2024; House Republicans are considering cutting benefits for low-income Americans to offset the cost of Trump-backed tax cuts; and Trump directed universities to monitor and report international students involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Jan 30, 2025