On This Day: October 13

5 posts spanning 2017–2025

2017

• Day 267 Oct 13, 2017

2020

• Day 1363: Trump tested negative for the coronavirus "on consecutive days"; Trump returned to the campaign trail on Monday night in Florida; Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate's "first order of business" when it returns on Oct. 19 will be to vote on "targeted" coronavirus relief bill; Amy Coney Barrett largely refused to answer questions about how she might rule on a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, if she would recuse herself from any lawsuit about the presidential election, and whether she would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade; Trump continued his public criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci; and the Supreme Court approved a Trump administration request to end the 2020 census count earlier than planned. Oct 13, 2020

2021

• Day 267: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack subpoenaed a former Justice Department lawyer who tried to use department resources to push Trump’s false claims of voting fraud in the 2020 election; a federal judge held Washington, D.C.'s corrections director and jail warden in contempt of court; the U.S. will lift travel restrictions at land borders with Canada and Mexico for fully vaccinated travelers; the House approved a bill to raise the debt ceiling into early December; and the Biden administration announced a plan to develop wind farms along nearly the entire U.S. coastline. Oct 13, 2021

2022

• Day 632: The Jan. 6 committee voted unanimously to subpoena Trump; the Supreme Court rejected Trump's request to intervene in the Justice Department's investigation of classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago; security camera footage shows a Trump aide moving boxes out of a storage room at Mar-a-Lago before and after the Justice Department issued a subpoena in May demanding the return of classified documents; New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a judge to stop Trump from transferring his business assets to a new holding company amid a pending civil lawsuit; the Consumer Price Index, a measure of what consumers pay for goods and services, increased 8.2% from a year ago; and mortgage rates jumped to their highest level in more than 20 years. Oct 13, 2022

2025

• Day 1728: The Trump administration fired more than 4,000 employees across at least seven agencies on Friday as the government shutdown entered its second week; House Speaker Mike Johnson called the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies a “boondoggle” and warned the U.S. is “barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history”; 41% of Americans blame Republicans for the government shutdown, while 30% blame Democrats and 23–31% blame both parties; on Friday, Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on all Chinese goods, erasing about $2 trillion in U.S. market value; two days later, Trump tried to calm investors, saying “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine!"; and Trump declared “the war is over” after Hamas freed all 20 surviving hostages in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, calling the U.S.-brokered ceasefire “a new beginning for the Middle East.” Oct 13, 2025