2019 Day 838: The White House invoked executive privilege and ordered Donald McGahn not to comply with a congressional subpoena; Mitch McConnell called the investigations into Trump and his 2016 campaign "case closed"; and New York State lawmakers plan to advance a bill this week to allow congressional committees to see Trump's New York State returns. May 7, 2019
2020 Day 1204: An additional 3.2 million Americans filed unemployment claims last week; the Trump administration rejected CDC guidelines to help states and business owners safely reopen, calling the guidance "overly prescriptive"; more than half of the states that have started to reopen don't meet the criteria recommended by the White House for resuming business and social activities; one of Trump's personal valets tested positive for the coronavirus; Trump contradicted a nurse who said that some parts of the country were experiencing shortages of protective medical gear; the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block the release of secret Robert Mueller grand jury evidence; and the Justice Department dropped its prosecution of Michael Flynn. May 7, 2020
2021 Day 108: The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in April; Texas and Florida approved new, more restrictive state election rules; the Justice Department filed federal criminal charges against Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers in connection with the death of George Floyd; the top respiratory disease official at the CDC resigned; and Trump's Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of three Washington Post journalists. May 7, 2021
2024 Day 1204: Israeli forces seized the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt; the Biden administration is expected notify Congress this week about whether it believes Israel has violated U.S. or international law in Gaza; Stormy Daniels testified in Trump’s his election interference trial involving falsified business records; Judge Juan Merchan rejected Trump’s request for a mistrial; Marjorie Taylor Greene – again – threatened to force a vote on ousting Mike Johnson as speaker unless he defunds the special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump; and the judge in Trump’s classified documents case indefinitely suspended the deadline for a key court filing in the criminal proceeding. May 7, 2024
2025 Day 1569: The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at 4.25% to 4.5%, warning that Trump’s tariffs risk both higher unemployment and higher inflation; House Republicans pushed through a late-night amendment to sell more than 11,000 acres of federal land in Utah and Nevada as part of Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax cut package; House Speaker Mike Johnson dropped two Republican proposals to cut Medicaid after a government report showed they would push up to 10 million people off health insurance; 32 House Republicans warned Republican leaders they will block Trump’s legislative package unless it includes at least $2 trillion in concrete spending cuts; the Trump administration plans to deport undocumented migrants to Libya, a country the State Department describes as plagued by “crime, terrorism, kidnapping and armed conflict; and Trump teased an “earth-shattering” announcement ahead of his Middle East trip next week, but refused to provide details. May 7, 2025