2019 Day 957: The House Judiciary Committee is preparing to investigate Trump's alleged involvement in the 2016 hush-money payments to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels; Trump "suggested" that Pence stay at his Irish golf club and hotel during a taxpayer-funded trip; a company that Trump's campaign manager owns received more than $900,000 in business from a pro-Trump super PAC; and the Trump administration will divert $3.6 billion this week from military construction projects to build the border wall. Sep 3, 2019
2020 Day 1323: Another 881,000 people applied for state unemployment benefits last week; the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee sued Montana in an attempt to block an expansion of mail-in voting in the state; Trump encouraged North Carolina residents to illegally vote twice; a Homeland Security intelligence bulletin warned that Russia is trying to undermine the integrity of the election by "amplifying" false claims that mail-in voting will result in widespread fraud; and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar rejected concerns that the Trump administration is rushing the approval of a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day. Sep 3, 2020
2021 Day 227: Joe Manchin demanded that Democrats "pause" on advancing Biden’s $3.5 trillion tax and spending package; the acting commissioner of the FDA and CDC director asked the White House to scale back the Covid-19 vaccine booster plan for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines; the House and Senate Judiciary committees plan to hold hearings to examine Texas' six-week abortion ban and the Supreme Court procedure that allowed it to take effect this week; Biden ordered the declassification and release of documents related to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001; and 77% of Americans support Biden’s decision to end the war in Afghanistan, but 52% disapprove of the way the withdrawal was handled. Sep 3, 2021
2024 Day 1323: Trump claimed that he had "every right" to interfere with the 2020 presidential election; a federal judge rejected Trump’s attempt to move his New York criminal case into federal court; Democrats on the House Oversight Committee asked Trump to prove he never illegally accepted nearly $10 million from the Egyptian government; and 67% of Americans think Trump is unprepared to accept the election outcome. Sep 3, 2024
2025 Day 1688: More than 1,000 current and former HHS employees called on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign, warning he “continues to endanger the nation’s health” and is “compromising the health of this nation”; Florida plans to become the first state to end all childhood vaccine mandates, including for children attending public school; California, Washington, and Oregon formed the West Coast Health Alliance to set their own vaccine guidance, saying the CDC could no longer be trusted under the Trump administration; Trump called the effort to release the Jeffrey Epstein files a “Democrat hoax that never ends” as nearly a dozen women stood at the Capitol detailing how Epstein abused them as teenagers; federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze about $2.2 billion in Harvard research grants; House Republicans voted to form a new subcommittee to re-investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol; and Newsmax sued Fox News. Sep 3, 2025