2019 Day 879: The Supreme Court ruled that criminal defendants may be prosecuted for the same offenses in both federal and state court; U.S. Cyber Command hacked and deployed malware inside Russia's power grid without Trump's knowledge; Trump accused The New York Times of committing a "virtual act of treason"; and Trump's re-election campaign fired several pollsters after leaked internal polling showed he trailed Joe Biden in 11 battleground states. Jun 17, 2019
2020 Day 1245: At least 10 states reported either new single-day highs or set a record for seven-day new case averages of the coronavirus; Pence incorrectly argued that the spike in coronavirus cases is a function of more testing; John Bolton claimed that Trump personally asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 presidential election; Trump is considering suing his niece to prevent her from publishing her tell-all book about him; and Officials in Tulsa have asked the Trump campaign to cancel his campaign rally on Saturday, calling it "the perfect storm of potential over-the-top disease transmission." Jun 17, 2020
2021 Day 149: The Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act for the third time; Mitch McConnell rejected Joe Manchin's voting rights compromise offer; the Biden administration will invest $3.2 billion to advance the development of antiviral pills to treat Covid-19 and other viruses; the Education Department canceled more than $500 million in federal student loan debt for 18,000 borrowers who were defrauded; Biden signed legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S.; and a Florida GOP congressional candidate threatened his Republican opponent with “a Russian and Ukrainian hit squad” that would make her “disappear.” Jun 17, 2021
2024 Day 1245: The U.S. surgeon general called for social media companies to include a surgeon general’s warning label stating that the platforms can harm people’s mental health; a federal judge blocked the Biden administration from enforcing new protections for LGBTQ+ students in six states; the Supreme Court overturned a federal ban on bump stocks; House Republicans passed defense policy legislation that would restrict access to abortion and transgender medical care in the military; and Trump confused the name of his former White House physician immediately after demanding that Biden “should have to take a cognitive test.” Jun 17, 2024
2025 Day 1610: Trump abruptly left the G7 summit in Canada and returned to Washington as the Israel-Iran conflict escalated; Trump held a closed-door national security meeting to weigh a possible U.S. strike on Iran’s Fordo nuclear site; a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced resolutions to block Trump from ordering U.S. military strikes on Iran without congressional approval; Trump said he won’t call Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after a gunman killed a Democratic state representative and wounded a state senator in what authorities called a targeted political attack; the Senate Republicans’ revised version of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would slash Medicaid spending, shrink the child tax credit, and cap state and local tax deductions at $10,000; the House Republicans’ tax and spending bill would add $2.8 trillion to the deficit over the next decade – more than previously estimated – because higher interest costs outweigh the modest economic growth it would generate; 64% of Americans have an unfavorable view of Trump’s "One Big Beautiful Bill"; and 66% of Americans have heard either little or nothing about the House Republican’s spending bill. Jun 17, 2025