2020 Day 1160: Congressional negotiators signaled that they are nearing a bipartisan agreement on an estimated $2 trillion emergency stimulus package; Trump's patience with Dr. Anthony Fauci has reportedly started to wear thin; Trump wants the nation "opened up and just raring to go by Easter"; health officials, meanwhile, want Trump to "double down, not lighten up" on social distancing restrictions; and Trump’s private businesses have shut down six of its top seven revenue-producing clubs and hotels because of social distancing restrictions meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Mar 24, 2020
2021 Day 64: Kamala Harris will takeover efforts to address illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border; gun violence killed nearly 20,000 Americans in 2020, making it the deadliest year for gun violence in at least two decades; Biden extended the special enrollment period for purchasing Affordable Care Act health plans by three months, until Aug. 15; Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell clashed during a Senate Rules Committee hearing on a Democratic plan to overhaul federal elections and expand voting rights; and the U.S. dropped 11 points in a global ranking of political rights and civil liberties over the last decade. Mar 24, 2021
2022 Day 429: The U.S. and its allies imposed new sanctions on more than 400 Russian individuals and entities; Biden called for Russia to be removed from the G-20; Biden warned that NATO would respond “in kind” if Russia used chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine; a Manhattan prosecutor who investigated Trump’s financial dealings said he believes Trump is “guilty of numerous felony violations”; Trump repeatedly pushed Republican Rep. Mo Brooks to "rescind" the 2020 election results; Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's historic confirmation hearings concluded; and microplastic pollution was found in human blood for the first time. Mar 24, 2022
2025 Day 1525: Top Trump administration officials planned military strikes on Yemen in an unclassified Signal group chat that accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief; Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied a report that Elon Musk would receive a classified Pentagon briefing on potential war plans with China, despite multiple news outlets confirming Musk’s visit was originally scheduled to include China-related discussions; the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to block a federal judge’s order requiring the rehiring of over 16,000 probationary federal employees who were fired; the Trump administration eliminated three watchdog offices inside the Department of Homeland Security that investigated complaints and advocated for immigrants; the IRS is close to approving a plan that would give ICE access to confidential taxpayer data to verify names and addresses of immigrants targeted for deportation; a federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s request to resume deportations under the Alien Enemies Act; the Trump administration will end a Biden-era immigration program that allowed over 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to live and work in the U.S.; the White House confirmed it will scale back Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” tariff rollout; the U.S. could default on its debt as early as July if Congress fails to act on the debt ceiling; J.D. Vance is polling worse than any modern VP at this point in office; and Colorado will remove Trump’s portrait from the state Capitol after he claimed it was “purposefully distorted” and “truly the worst." Mar 24, 2025
2026 Day 1890: The Trump administration ordered the 82nd Airborne Division to deploy roughly 2,000 to 3,000 troops to the Middle East; the U.S. sent Iran a 15-point proposal to end the war as Trump claimed “this war has been won”; Senate Republicans proposed a plan to fund and reopen most of the Department of Homeland Security while excluding ICE’s deportation operations; Minnesota sued the Trump administration to force the release of evidence in three shootings by federal officers during the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis; Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 2022 investigation into Kash Patel subpoenaed more than two years of his phone metadata, text logs, online account details, billing records, IP addresses, and bank account information; a Justice Department prosecutor conceded that the government didn't have evidence of fraud or other criminal misconduct in the Federal Reserve’s $2.5 billion renovation project; Trump voted by mail in a Florida special election after declaring that “mail-in voting means mail-in cheating” and “we got to do something about it all”; 36% of Americans approve of Trump's job performance; and 49% of U.S. workers were classified as “struggling” in their lives, while 46% were classified as “thriving” — the first time Gallup found more workers struggling than thriving. Mar 24, 2026