2018 Day 505: The Trump administration will not defend the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate; a former Senate Intelligence Committee aide was arrested and charged with lying to the FBI; Trump called on the G7 to reinstate Russia; and ICE is temporarily sending about 1,600 detainees to five federal prisons. Jun 8, 2018
2020 Day 1236: Trump ordered National Guard troops to begin withdrawing from the streets of Washington, D.C. "now that everything is under perfect control"; Trump privately demanded that the military deploy 10,000 troops onto U.S. streets during a heated argument with White House officials in the Oval Office last week; White House officials are debating whether to have Trump address the nation on race and national unity; and 80% of Americans say things are out of control in the United States. Jun 8, 2020
2021 Day 140: Biden's Justice Department will continue to defend Trump in a defamation lawsuit; the Koch network pressured Joe Manchin to oppose Biden's key legislative items; Capitol Police had intelligence that Trump supporters planned to attack the Capitol at least two weeks before the Jan. 6 riot; Trump's impeachment lawyers are defending at least three people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection; Senate Republicans are blocking the confirmation for Biden’s nominee to lead the federal personnel agency because of her support for abortion rights and critical race theory; and the Biden administration threatened to sue Texas if its Republican Governor Greg Abbott moves forward with plans to close more than 50 shelters housing about 4,000 migrant children. Jun 8, 2021
2022 Day 505: A man armed with a pistol, a knife, and other weapons was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home; Trump, Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump agreed to testify in the New York attorney general's civil probe into the family's business practices; the Jan. 6 committee is in active discussions with Trump's White House counsel about testifying publicly at one of their upcoming hearings; the FDA's panel of independent vaccine experts recommended authorization of Novavax's coronavirus vaccine; and the House is expected to pass the most aggressive gun control legislation in years, which will stall in the evenly divided Senate. Jun 8, 2022
2023 Day 870: The Supreme Court rejected the Republican-drawn congressional maps in Alabama that illegally diluted the political power of its Black residents; the Justice Department informed Trump that he is a target in the federal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents; Kevin McCarthy was forced to cancel votes in the House for the rest of the week following a revolt by the Freedom Caucus; and Cuba reportedly agreed to allow China to build an electronic eavesdropping and intelligence-gathering facility on the island in exchange for billions in foreign aid. Jun 8, 2023
2026 Day 1966: Israel and Iran paused direct attacks after trading strikes for the first time since the April ceasefire; Trump denied that he ever promised not to start a war while defending his three-month war with Iran that he launched without congressional approval; Trump abruptly ended a “Meet the Press” interview after Kristen Welker pressed him for evidence supporting his false claims that the 2020 election and California’s primary were “rigged”; the House passed a Ukraine aid and Russia sanctions bill; the Senate passed the $70 billion immigration enforcement bill without restrictions on Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund; a federal judge voided Trump’s $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications; Trump wants his acting director of national intelligence to “start the process” of firing "a lot of people" in the intelligence community; a federal lawsuit seeks to block Trump’s UFC fight on the White House South Lawn arguing the June 14 event violates National Park Service rules, lacked environmental review, and uses federal landmarks for a private, for-profit sports event; and 66% of Americans say a democratically elected government is important to the nation's identity – down from 80% in 2021. Jun 8, 2026