2019 Day 781: Trump proposed a $4.75 trillion budget; Trump claimed that "the Democrats hate Jewish people"; the former owner of a massage parlor tied to a prostitution ring sold Chinese executives access to Trump; and Nancy Pelosi says impeaching Trump is "just not worth it." Mar 11, 2019
2020 Day 1147: The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic; a top U.S. health official testified that the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. is "going to get worse"; since mid-January, the White House has ordered all meetings discussing coronavirus to be classified; the Dow entered a bear market; and Trump will address the nation at 9 p.m. ET. Mar 11, 2020
2021 Day 51: Biden signed the $1.9 trillion economic relief package into law; some Americans could receive coronavirus stimulus checks as soon as this weekend; Biden will address the nation tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern; the U.S. death rate increased 15% last year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; and more than 3,700 unaccompanied migrant children are in Border Patrol custody. Mar 11, 2021
2024 Day 1147: Biden proposed a $7.3 trillion budget for the next fiscal year that would raise taxes on high earners and corporations to keep Social Security and Medicare from hitting insolvency within the next decade; Trump suggested that he’s open to “cutting” Social Security and Medicare; Trump posted a $91.6 million bond to appeal the $83.3 million judgement against him in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case; Trump asked to postpone his New York state hush-money trial until the Supreme Court rules on whether "presidential immunity" protects him from criminal prosecution; and the Republican National Committee voted to install a new leadership team that was hand-picked by Trump, completing his takeover of the national party. Mar 11, 2024
2026 Day 1877: Sen. John Cornyn said he’d back "whatever changes to Senate rules that may prove necessary" to pass the SAVE America Act; Trump suggested that the war with Iran would end soon because there was “practically nothing left to target”; the Trump administration believes it has three to four weeks before sustained high oil prices become a political liability; the International Energy Agency said its 32 member countries agreed to release 400 million barrels of emergency oil stocks; U.S. consumer prices rose 2.4% in February from a year earlier; a foreign hacker breached an FBI server in February 2023 and accessed files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation; 46% of Americans say they support using the National Guard to monitor polling places in during the midterm elections; 22% of registered voters say they have a great deal or quite a bit of confidence in the Supreme Court; 52% of likely voters say they believe Trump launched the war on Iran at least partly to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal; and 41% of Americans approved of Trump’s decision to take military action in Iran – the lowest approval ever for initiating an international military action. Mar 11, 2026