2019 Day 833: Pelosi accused Barr of "not telling the truth"; Democrats threatened to hold Barr in contempt of Congress; and the White House has accused special counsel Mueller's team of failing "to act as prosecutors and only as prosecutors." May 2, 2019
2022 Day 468: A special grand jury was seated in Georgia to help investigate whether Trump and others tried to illegally influence the 2020 election; New York City entered a higher risk level for coronavirus transmission as cases continue to rise; Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reiterated his request from about a year ago for migrants to “not come” to the U.S. southern border; a federal judge allowed the Jan. 6 committee to obtain the Republican National Committee's marketing email data leading up to the insurrection; antiabortion groups and some Republican lawmakers have started meeting about potential federal legislation to outlaw abortion after six weeks of pregnancy; the primaries for November's midterm elections begin this month with voters in 13 states heading to the polls; and 47% of voters said they're more likely to vote for the Republican in their district in November's midterm elections. May 2, 2022
2023 Day 833: Biden will send 1,500 active duty troops to the southern border ahead of an expected surge of migrants when Title 42 restrictions end; House Democrats took a procedural step to bypass Kevin McCarthy and Republican leaders to raise the debt ceiling and avert a federal default; U.S. job openings dropped to their lowest level in nearly two years; and some Republicans dismissed a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about the Supreme Court's ethics as a partisan spectacle. May 2, 2023
2024 Day 1199: Trump refused to unconditionally accept the results of the 2024 presidential election if he doesn’t win; on day 10 of Trump’s election interference trial involving falsified business records, the lawyer who represented Stormy Daniels finished his testimony and Judge Juan Merchan held another hearing on whether Trump is continuing to violate his gag order; Biden defended "the right to protest but not the right to cause chaos," demanding that “order must prevail”; and the U.S. accused Russia of using chemical weapons against Ukrainian soldiers. May 2, 2024