2019 Day 900: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill allowing congressional committees to access Trump's New York state tax returns; congressional Democrats issued three-dozen subpoenas to the Trump Organization and other Trump businesses; Trump is "very seriously" considering an executive order to get the citizenship question on the 2020 census; and a White House correspondent for Breitbart has joined the Trump administration. Jul 8, 2019
2020 Day 1266: Trump threatened to cut federal funding if schools don't fully physically reopen; the CDC will issue new guidance on school openings after Trump called the existing guidelines too "tough," "very impractical," and "expensive"; the U.S. reported more than 60,000 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday as the total number of confirmed cases crossed 3 million; and Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa “likely contributed” to a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases. Jul 8, 2020
2024 Day 1266: Biden told congressional Democrats that he was committed to “running this race to the end” and that it's time to "end" the pressure on him drop out; an expert on Parkinson’s disease visited the White House eight times between last July and March of this year; Judge Aileen Cannon granted convicted felon Trump’s request to delay some deadlines in his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case following the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling; June was the warmest month on record worldwide; and 48% of Americans say Trump should serve time in prison after he was convicted on all 34 felon counts of orchestrating an illegal conspiracy to influence the 2016 presidential election by falsifying business records, while 50% say he should not. Jul 8, 2024
2025 Day 1631: The Supreme Court allowed Trump to proceed with firing tens of thousands of federal workers across 21 agencies as part of his plan to restructure or dismantle government offices; Trump said his new tariffs will take effect August 1 and “no extensions will be granted,” reversing comments hours earlier that the deadline was “firm, but not 100% firm”; Trump resumed weapons shipments to Ukraine after a weeklong pause he claimed he hadn’t authorized and then accused Putin of stalling peace efforts and escalating the war; an impostor used AI to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s voice to contact at least five officials; the IRS said churches can endorse political candidates from the pulpit without losing tax-exempt status; and House Democrats demanded the release of all the Epstein-related files that mention Trump, accusing Attorney General Pam Bondi of protecting Trump. Jul 8, 2025