2020 Day 1208: Three members of the White House coronavirus task force will self-quarantine after possibly being exposed to the coronavirus; Pence will not self-quarantine after his press secretary tested positive because he "has tested negative every single day"; the White House encouraged staffers to come into the office; the White House also directed most officials – but not Trump – to wear masks at all times inside the building; emails show that top White House officials buried CDC guidance for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic; and Trump spent Mother's Day sending 126 tweets, retweets, and quote-tweets about the Russia investigation while the U.S. coronavirus death toll crossed 80,000. May 11, 2020
2021 Day 112: The FDA authorized Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for children ages 12 and up; Biden said that the White House will “make it clear” that people collecting unemployment benefits under the American Rescue Plan must take a “suitable” job offer or they'll lose their benefits; the Biden administration approved the nation’s first large-scale offshore wind farm; and two Trump family members got “inappropriately – and perhaps dangerously – close” to the Secret Service agents protecting them. May 11, 2021
2022 Day 477: Senate Republicans and Joe Manchin blocked a bill to enshrine abortion rights into federal law; Republican Sen. Susan Collins called the police over a chalk message in front of her house asking her to support the Women's Health Protection Act; the pace of inflation eased slightly in April for the first time in seven months; the House approved more than $40 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine; a New York judge released Trump from a contempt of court order; and several people who served as fake Republican electors in Georgia are cooperating in the criminal probe of Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. May 11, 2022
2023 Day 842: The pandemic-era border policy used more than 2.8 million times to quick expel migrants without providing asylum hearings expires tonight; the EPA proposed new greenhouse gas emissions regulations that would eliminate nearly all carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants by 2040; CNN reported that "it's hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN" during Trump's primetime town hall interview; Dianne Feinstein attended her first Judiciary Committee meeting since she was hospitalized with shingles in February; and in a hypothetical 2024 matchup, 44% of voters said they'd vote for Trump while 38% said they'd vote for Biden. May 11, 2023