2018 Day 631: The Trump administration is considering new rules to separate parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border; Wilbur Ross discussed adding a citizenship question to the U.S. census with Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach; Trump could fire Jeff Sessions and replace him with a temporary attorney general who would defund Robert Mueller's probe; and a Hatch Act complaint was filed against Sarah Huckabee Sanders for using her official government Twitter account to tweet a photo of herself with Kanye West, who was wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat in the Oval Office. Oct 12, 2018
2020 Day 1362: More than 200 companies, special interest groups and foreign governments patronized Trump's properties since he took office; Trump’s adult children and their families have cost taxpayers at least $238,000 in room rentals at Trump properties for Secret Service protection since taking office; the Senate Judiciary Committee held the first of four days of confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett; the White House blocked a CDC order requiring all passengers and employees wear masks on planes, trains, buses, and subways, and in airports, stations and depots; and Trump delivered a short speech from the Blue Room balcony overlooking the South Lawn on Saturday after Dr. Sean Conley issued a doctor’s note saying Trump was "no longer considered a transmission risk to others." Oct 12, 2020
2022 Day 631: The FDA authorized updated coronavirus booster shots for children as young as 5; Biden said the prospect of a “slight recession” is possible but that he doesn’t "anticipate it"; more than 2,600 federal officials reported stock investments in companies while those companies lobbied their agencies for favorable policies; the Jan. 6 committee will share new video footage and internal Secret Service emails that show Trump ratcheted up the conflict at the Capitol, despite being warned of escalating violence; a federal judge rejected Trump’s attempt to delay his deposition in a defamation suit by a woman who claims he raped her in the 1990s; and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion in damages to the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. Oct 12, 2022
2023 Day 996: The House remains leaderless as Steve Scalise doesn't have the 217 Republican votes needed to become speaker; federal prosecutors indicted Sen. Bob Menendez on charges of conspiring to act as an illegal foreign agent of Egypt while serving as the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; the U.S. urged Israel to avoid civilian casualties as the Israeli military said its preparing “for the next stage of the war” “to change the reality” in Gaza; and inflation rose 3.7% from a year earlier, reinforcing the Federal Reserve’s intent to keep interest rates high. Oct 12, 2023