2018 Day 515: Hundreds of children separated from their parents are living inside cages; lawmakers from both parties demanded that Trump stop his policy of separating children from their parents at the border; the White House continued to falsely blame Democrats for the Trump's policy; and Roger Stone met during the 2016 campaign with a Russian national who wanted Trump to pay $2 million for the political dirt on Hillary Clinton. Jun 18, 2018
2019 Day 880: Trump threatened to arrest and deport "millions of illegal aliens" next week; Trump nominee for defense secretary "decided not to go forward with his confirmation process"; Trump's nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations was frequently missing from her post; and Attorney General William Barr's top deputy intervened in Paul Manafort's prison designation. Jun 18, 2019
2020 Day 1246: Seventy-seven nations have seen a growth in new coronavirus cases over the past two weeks; Trump thinks coronavirus "testing is overrated"; the Trump administration paid $7.3 million for more than 3 million test tubes, but received plastic tubes made for bottling soda; the Supreme Court ruled that Trump violated federal law when he ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017; Trump complained that the Supreme Court's DACA decision was like "shotgun blasts into the face"; Trump took credit for popularizing Juneteenth, saying "I did something good" because "nobody had ever heard" of it before; and Facebook removed dozens of ads placed by Trump’s reelection campaign that included a symbol used by the Nazis to designate political prisoners in concentration camps. Jun 18, 2020
2024 Day 1246: Biden announced executive actions to protect some 500,000 immigrants without legal status in the U.S. from deportation; the New York Court of Appeals rejected convicted felon Trump's appeal of the gag order in the election interference case involving falsified business records; the House Ethics Committee is expanding its investigation into Matt Gaetz amid allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use; plus ✏️ Notables. Jun 18, 2024
2025 Day 1611: Trump approved U.S. strike plans on Iran but held back a final order, calling it his "ultimate ultimatum" for Tehran to dismantle its nuclear program; the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors; the Trump administration ordered the national suicide hotline to shut down its LGBTQ youth services; the FDA approved a twice-yearly injectable drug that nearly eliminated new HIV infections in two clinical trials; the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at 4.25% to 4.5% and raised its inflation forecast, but signaled that it still expects two cuts later this year; Trump called Fed Chair Jerome Powell “a stupid person” and demanded a 2.5-point rate cut, which would be one of the largest in Fed history; and Social Security and Medicare will run out of reserve funds sooner than expected. Jun 18, 2025