2019 Day 778: Trump claimed that Michael Cohen "directly" asked him for a pardon; Trump's inauguration fund took in tens of thousands of dollars from shell companies owned by foreign contributors; Paul Manafort was sentenced to less than four years in jail in the first of two cases against him; and Trump watched the Super Bowl with the woman who founded the spa where Patriots owner Robert Kraft was caught soliciting prostitution from trafficked women. Mar 8, 2019
2021 Day 48: The Senate passed the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package; the House plans to pass the relief bill as soon as Tuesday, putting Biden on track to sign his first major legislative accomplishment into law by the end of the week; new CDC guidance says that people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 can safely visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing a mask or social distancing; Russian intelligence agencies are spreading disinformation to undermine confidence in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines; the Biden administration notified facilities handling migrant children that they can expand to full, pre-Covid-19 capacity; the Biden administration granted temporary protected status to up to 320,000 Venezuelan migrants in the United States; and Biden signed executive orders that would establish a Gender Policy Council within the White House and direct the Department of Education to review Trump administration policy changes to Title IX. Mar 8, 2021
2022 Day 413: Biden banned all imports of oil and natural gas from Russia; Poland offered to transfer all of its Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jets “immediately and free of charge” to a U.S. air base in Germany; CIA Director William Burns said Putin is "angry and frustrated" with his invasion of Ukraine and will likely "double-down [...] with no regard for civilian casualties"; the Senate unanimously approved a bill to make lynching a federal hate crime; the first Jan. 6 defendant to take his case to trial was found guilty of all five charges; a federal grand jury indicted the longtime leader of the Proud Boys with conspiracy to obstruct Congress; and Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a controversial bill that forbids lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. Mar 8, 2022
2023 Day 778: Biden’s budget blueprint aims to cut federal budget deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade; the White House condemned Tucker Carlson for his false narrative that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a largely peaceful event; Tucker Carlson claimed that he "passionately" hated Trump; Kevin McCarthy rejected President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's invitation to visit Ukraine; and a bipartisan group of 12 senators introduced a bill that could be used to ban TikTok. Mar 8, 2023