2018 Day 609: Christine Blasey Ford is "prepared to testify next week"; Senate Republicans plan to move forward with Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation despite sexual assault allegations by Ford; Trump insists there is no role for the FBI in investigating Ford's claim; and Trump told Spain's Foreign Minister to "build a wall across the Sahara." Sep 20, 2018
2019 Day 974: Trump pressured the leader of Ukraine eight times to investigate Joe Biden's son; the whistleblower complaint about Trump made by an intelligence official involves Ukraine; Rudy Giuliani denied asking Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden immediately before admitting that he actually had; and Trump dismissed the whistleblower complaint involving his conversations with Ukraine as a "ridiculous," "partisan" attack. Sep 20, 2019
2021 Day 244: House Democrats plan to combine a short-term government spending bill with the suspension of the debt limit in an effort to avert a government shutdown; the Senate’s parliamentarian blocked the Democrats’ plan to use the $3.5 trillion social and climate package to provide a path to citizenship for an estimated 8 million immigrants; more than 675,000 people in the U.S. have died of Covid-19; and the Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 1 on Mississippi’s restrictive abortion law. Sep 20, 2021
2022 Day 609: A Texas sheriff opened a criminal investigation into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to fly 48 Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard; the U.S. arrested more than 2 million undocumented immigrants along the southwestern border in the past 11 months; the Justice Department charged 47 defendants with stealing $240 million from a federal program that provided food for needy children during the pandemic; newly obtained surveillance video shows Trump allies and contractors working on his behalf copying sensitive software and data from voting equipment in a Georgia county elections office; Trump’s lawyers acknowledged that the criminal investigation into his handling of sensitive government documents could lead to an indictment; and adults under 65 should be screened for anxiety and all adults should be checked for depression. Sep 20, 2022
2023 Day 974: Increases in wildfire smoke have reversed two decades of improvements to air quality in three-quarters of all U.S. states; Biden announced the first-ever "American Climate Corps"; the Biden administration will resume offering free at-home Covid-19 tests through the mail; the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at a level between 5.25 and 5.5% – the highest level in 22 years; and Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the Justice Department's independence during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. Sep 20, 2023