2020 Day 1224: Coronavirus deaths in the U.S. have passed 100,000; Twitter added a fact-check label to two of Trump's tweets; Trump threatened to "close" Twitter; a conservative organization working to restrict voting in the 2020 election is part of a dark money network that has been helping Trump remake the U.S. federal court system; Trump's press secretary has voted by mail in every Florida election she has participated in since 2010 but insists that mail-in voting if rife with fraud; and the Trump administration no longer regards Hong Kong as autonomous from mainland China. May 27, 2020
2021 Day 128: Senate Republicans are expected to use the filibuster to block the establishment of a bipartisan, independent commission to study the Jan. 6 pro-Trump riot at the Capitol; a federal judge warned that Trump's "steady drumbeat" of false claims that the 2020 election was "stolen" from him could inspire his supporters to take up arms; Senate Republicans offered a $928 billion infrastructure proposal to counter Biden's American Jobs Plan, which was initially valued at $2.3 trillion; and Biden urged Congress to pass stricter gun control measures after eight people were killed during a mass shooting at a Northern California rail yard. May 27, 2021
2025 Day 1589: Senate Republicans threatened to block Trump’s tax and spending bill; Trump announced and then two days later delayed a 50% tariff on all European Union imports until July 9; Trump threatened a 25% tariff on iPhones not made in the U.S., despite warnings that a domestically built model could cost up to $3,500; the Trump administration stopped all new student visa interviews as it prepares to require social media screening for every applicant; a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from banning international students at Harvard; the Trump administration ordered federal agencies to cancel all remaining contracts with Harvard University; and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid-19 vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children or pregnant women. May 27, 2025
2026 Day 1954: Trump said "I don’t care about the midterms” and wouldn't let the upcoming election or Iranian state media reports rush him into a deal; Ken Paxton won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Texas, turning Trump’s late endorsement into a 28-point rejection of Sen. John Cornyn, a four-term incumbent; Alabama asked the Supreme Court to let it use a 2023 congressional map that would likely give Republicans six of the state’s seven House seats by eliminating a second Black-majority or near-majority district; Biden sued the Justice Department to block the release of about 70 hours of private audio recordings and transcripts from 2016 and 2017 interviews with his ghostwriter; Jill Biden said she was "frightened" that Joe Biden was “having a stroke” during his June 2024 debate against Trump; Trump appointed former Attorney General Pam Bondi to the White House science and technology advisory council; the Trump administration agreed to pay $13.1 million in a no-bid contract to a first-time federal contractor to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool; 58% of Americans say Trump has made the economy worse; 25% of Latino Trump voters said they would not vote for him again; Democrats lead Republicans by almost 6 points on the House generic ballot; and 12% of Americans said the worst thing about Republicans is their loyalty to Trump, while 10% said the worst thing about Democrats is that they're weak and don't stand up to Trump. May 27, 2026