2018 Day 623: The White House is "fully confident" that Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed by the Senate after receiving the FBI report; Sens. Susan Collins and Jeff Flake called the FBI report "reassuring" and "thorough"; a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protective Status for more than 300,000 immigrants; and the Justice Department indicted seven Russian military intelligence officials for trying to hack anti-doping agencies. Oct 4, 2018
2019 Day 988: Text messages reveal how two U.S. ambassadors coordinated with Rudy Giuliani and a top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to leverage a potential White House meeting between Trump and Zelensky into persuading Kiev to publicly commit to investigating Joe Biden; the CIA's general counsel made a criminal referral to the Justice Department about the whistleblower's allegations that Trump abused his office weeks before the complaint became public; the Treasury Department's inspector general is investigating how the department handled requests for Trump's tax returns; Trump blocked Sen. Ron Johnson in August from telling Ukraine's president that U.S. aid was on its way; and Iranian hackers targeted Trump's re-election campaign. Oct 4, 2019
2021 Day 258: Mitch McConnell demanded that Biden pressure congressional Democratic leaders into raising the debt ceiling unilaterally because Republicans will not support the effort; Biden accused Republicans of playing "Russian roulette" with the U.S. economy; Chuck Schumer told Senate Democrats he plans to hold a vote this week on a measure to suspend the debt limit; Democrats will try to pass both the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion investment in social programs by the end of October; the Biden administration revoked a Trump-era rule that barred health clinics that receive federal funds from advising people about ending their pregnancies; and Rudy Giuliani admitted under oath that his "evidence" of voter fraud in the 2020 election came from unvetted posts on Facebook and other social media platforms. Oct 4, 2021
2022 Day 623: The United Nations warned that the world is “on the edge of a recession”; job openings dropped 10% in August; home prices in the U.S. posted their largest monthly declines since 2009; Trump asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the dispute over classified government documents the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago; Trump's lawyer refused his instructions to tell the National Archives that all the records had been returned; and Trump sued CNN for alleged defamation and is seeking at least $475 million in damages. Oct 4, 2022