2018 Day 488: Trump doesn't take recommended security precautions for his digital communications and tweets; his aides use poor grammar when they write tweets for him; the EPA banned the AP and CNN from a national water contamination summit; the Interior Department wants to let hunters use cruel hunting tactics in Alaska; the GAO approved Trump's proposed cuts to CHIP; and lawmakers want to stop Trump's deal with ZTE. May 22, 2018
2019 Day 853: Nancy Pelosi accused Trump of "engaging in a cover-up" after Trump walked out of a meeting about infrastructure and declared that he won't work with Democrats unless they stop investigating him; the Intelligence Committee reached a deal with the DOJ to obtain redacted materials from Mueller's report; a confidential draft legal memo says the IRS has to comply with congressional requests for Trump's tax returns; and a federal judge ruled that Congress has the legal authority to request the Trump Organization's financial records from Deutsche Bank and Capital One. May 22, 2019
2020 Day 1219: Trump demanded that governors reopen houses of worship "right now" and threatened to "override" them if restrictions aren't lifted "by this weekend"; Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that extended lockdowns could cause "irreparable damage" and have "unintended [health] consequences"; the CDC estimates that roughly a third of coronavirus infections are asymptomatic and around 40% of coronavirus transmission occurs before people feel sick; a study of 96,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients across six continents found those who received hydroxychloroquine had a significantly higher death rate than those who did not receive the drug; and 56% of voters say Trump does not care about average Americans. May 22, 2020
2023 Day 853: California, Arizona, and Nevada agreed to reduce their water use from the Colorado River to help keep Lake Mead and Lake Powell from falling to critically low levels; the World Meteorological Organization reported that weather- and climate-related disasters have killed more than 2 million people and caused economic damage of $4.3 trillion over the last half-century; a third of the global population will live in dangerously hot conditions by 2080 if average global temperatures remain on track to rise 2.7C in the last two decades of the century; the NAACP issued a travel advisory for Florida; the FBI violated their own standards more than 278,000 times when using a warrantless surveillance program to investigate people; and 35% of Americans said their financial situation was worse off compared to a year ago. May 22, 2023
2024 Day 1219: Biden canceled $7.7 billion in student loans for another 160,000 borrowers; the Senate confirmed Biden’s 200th federal judge; Spain, Norway, and Ireland said they would recognize an independent Palestinian state; months before Trump was indicted for mishandling classified documents, a federal judge said the Justice Department had “strong evidence” that Trump “intended” to hide classified documents at Mar-a-Lago; Trump – resorting to magical thinking and outright fabrication – falsely claimed that Biden was “locked & loaded ready to take me out” during the 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago for classified documents; and 49% of swing state voters say they’re worried about violence surrounding the November election. May 22, 2024
2025 Day 1584: The House passed Trump’s tax and immigration package by a single vote after Speaker Mike Johnson made late-night concessions to win over Republican holdouts; the Senate voted 51–44 to revoke California’s authority to ban sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035; a federal judge blocked Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Education Department, ordering the agency to reinstate over 1,300 fired employees; the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on whether Oklahoma could create the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school; the Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, requiring nearly 6,800 current foreign students to transfer or lose their legal status; and 58% disapprove of Trump’s economic performance. May 22, 2025