2018 Day 490: Trump canceled the North Korean nuclear summit; he said migrant children entering through the southern border may look innocent, but "they're not innocent;" he called for sweeping changes to the immigration legal process; he suggested that NFL players "shouldn't be in the country" if they stay in the locker rooms during the anthem; and he signed the largest rollback of federal banking regulations since the Great Recession. May 24, 2018
2019 Day 855: Trump gave William Barr "full and complete authority" unilaterally declassify information in his audit of the Russia investigation origins; the administration is planning to go around Congress to approve a massive weapons deal with Saudi Arabia and the UAE; Trump has personally urged the Army Corps of Engineers to award a border wall contract to a specific construction firm; Trump formally proposed rolling back healthcare protections for transgender people; and the $19 billion disaster relief package is being held up by one House Republican. May 24, 2019
2021 Day 125: Biden doubled FEMA's budget for extreme weather preparation ahead of hurricane and wildfire season; the Biden administration extended special protections for Haitians temporarily living in the U.S.; more than 500 Biden campaign and Democratic Party staffers called on Biden to do more to protect Palestinian human rights and "hold Israel accountable for its actions"; Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Belarus for faking a bomb threat in order to force down a Ryanair flight and arrest a dissident journalist; the Trump administration secretly obtained the 2017 phone and email records of a CNN correspondent; and 53% of Republicans believe Trump is the actual President, not Biden. May 24, 2021
2023 Day 855: Target pulled some LGBTQ-themed merchandise following “threats impacting our team members’ sense of safety and wellbeing while at work”; the South Carolina Senate passed a ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy; a Florida elementary school restricted access to the poem recited at Biden's 2020 presidential inauguration after a parent complaint and school review; House Republicans will vote on a measure to block Biden's student loan forgiveness program; Kevin McCarthy suggested that negotiations over raising the debt limit were progressing but the two sides still remained “far apart”; and 51% of Americans want Congress to raise the debt ceiling and deal with spending cuts separately. May 24, 2023