2019 Day 719: Most of the major networks will broadcast Trump's border address; Manafort's lawyers accidentally revealed he shared 2016 polling data with a former employee linked to Russian intelligence; and lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was revealed to be more closely tied to the top Russian prosecutor than previously understood. Jan 8, 2019
2020 Day 1084: Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops; the U.S. military had advance warning of the attack; Trump responded by saying Iran appears "to be standing down"; but the House will still vote Thursday on a resolution to limit Trump's military options for action against Iran; and several Democratic senators want House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to submit the articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate. Jan 8, 2020
2021 Day 1450: House Democrats plan to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump on Monday for "incitement of insurrection"; Nancy Pelosi spoke to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about “preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities" or accessing the nuclear codes; prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's office opened a murder investigation into the death of a Capitol Police officer; Trump condemned the "heinous attack" on the Capitol that he incited and said he would leave office peacefully Jan. 20; surprising no one, Trump announced that he will not attend Biden's inauguration; the United States set a record for daily coronavirus-related deaths for the second day in a row, topping 4,000 deaths for the first time; and Twitter permanently suspended Trump "due to the risk of further incitement of violence." Jan 8, 2021
2024 Day 1084: The Supreme Court agreed to review the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Trump from that state’s ballot; Trump asked a Georgia judge to dismiss his 13 felony racketeering and conspiracy charges for trying to subvert the 2020 election, claiming the election subversion case violated presidential immunity, double jeopardy, and due process protections; the Supreme Court allowed Idaho to enforce its near-total ban on abortions; House Republicans and Senate Democrats reached an agreement to avert a shutdown and keep the federal government funded until the end of the fiscal year; and three years after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, 32% of Republicans disapprove of those who forced their way into the Capitol to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. Jan 8, 2024
2025 Day 1450: Trump asked the Supreme Court to block his sentencing in the New York election interference case involving falsified business records; the Justice Department plans to publicly release part of special counsel Jack Smith's final report on Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and disenfranchise millions of voters; a watchdog report found that three senior Trump-era Justice Department officials leaked details about COVID-19 nursing home death investigations in Democratic states to influence the 2020 presidential election; and Biden insisted that he could have beaten Trump in the 2024 election while acknowledging he wasn’t sure he could’ve completed a full second term. Jan 8, 2025
2026 Day 1815: The Senate voted 52-47 to advance a war powers resolution that would require congressional approval before Trump could order further military action “within or against Venezuela”; Trump said that his power as commander in chief is constrained only by “my own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me”; JD Vance blamed Renee Nicole Good for getting killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, calling her death a “tragedy of her own making”; the FBI revoked Minnesota investigators’ access to evidence and took sole control of the investigation into the fatal shooting of Good by an ICE officer; the House passed a clean three-year extension of the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits, and a bipartisan spending package to fund several federal agencies ahead of a Jan. 30 deadline; and Trump plans to ask Congress to raise U.S. military spending to $1.5 trillion in 2027. Jan 8, 2026