2020 Day 1138: The Supreme Court agreed to take up a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act; Trump called the coronavirus the Democrats' "new hoax" and accused them of “politicizing” the deadly virus; the U.S. signed a deal with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan; and an Interior Department official inserted misleading information about climate change into the agency's scientific reports. Mar 2, 2020
2021 Day 42: The U.S. expects to have a large enough supply of coronavirus vaccines to vaccinate every adult in the nation by the end of May; the World Health Organization warned that the global number of new coronavirus cases rose for the first time in nearly two months; Texas and Mississippi ended statewide mask mandates; FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Jan. 6 insurrection was “an inspiration to a number of terrorist extremists”; and the Manhattan district attorney's office has increased its focus on the Trump Organization's chief financial officer as part of their financial fraud investigation. Mar 2, 2021
2022 Day 407: Biden gave his first State of the Union address, which covered everything from the war in Europe to Biden's domestic policy agenda; he announced a new task force to go after the assets of Russian oligarchs, new sanctions on Putin's allies, a new plan to move beyond the pandemic, and a plan to distribute antiviral pills to people who test positive; Trump called the Russian invasion of Ukraine "a holocaust"; and new CPB documents show that Trump's border wall has been breached by smugglers more than 3,200 times over the last few years. Mar 2, 2022
2023 Day 772: Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol; the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into George Santos; Biden plans to ask Congress for $1.6 billion to recapture stolen Covid-19 relief funds and help victims of identity theft; Eli Lilly will cap the out-of-pocket costs of insulin at $35 a month; and the Senate voted to repeal a Biden administration rule that allowed retirement funds to consider climate and social factors in their investments decisions. Mar 2, 2023
2026 Day 1868: Trump declined to rule out sending U.S. ground troops into Iran “if they were necessary,” saying “whatever it takes” and adding, “I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground”; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rejected the idea of an “endless” war in Iran; the Pentagon acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran was preparing to launch a preemptive strike against the U.S. interests – contradicting Trump’s claim that the U.S. was "very nearly under threat" from Iran; a federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s effort to delay litigation over potential tariff refunds; the Justice Department dropped its defense of Trump’s executive orders sanctioning four law firms with ties to Democrats; Trump allies are continuing to press him to declare a national emergency and impose federal election rules without Congress as the SAVE Act’s voter ID and proof-of-citizenship mandates has stalled in the Senate; 34% of Americans approved of the U.S. attacks on Iran; and 60% of Americans said they don’t trust Trump to make the right decisions on U.S. use of force. Mar 2, 2026