2021 Day 29: Biden suggested that anyone in the country who wants a vaccine should be able to get one "by the end of July"; Biden clarified that his goal is to open the majority of K-8 schools by the end of his first 100 days in office; the Biden administration will invest more than $1.6 billion to expand coronavirus testing and genetic sequencing; and Biden declined to support Democratic proposals to cancel up to $50,000 per borrower in student loan debt, saying "I will not make that happen." Feb 17, 2021
2022 Day 394: Biden warned that "every indication" is that Putin will carry out an invasion of Ukraine within “in the next several days”; Trump, Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump must testify in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil probe of the Trump Organization; a House committee urged the General Services Administration to consider terminating the lease of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.; and the Jan. 6 committee reportedly discussed issuing a subpoena for Ivanka Trump. Feb 17, 2022
2026 Day 1855: Congressional Democrats sent the White House a new counterproposal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security after the agency’s funding lapsed Saturday; an 18-year-old man was arrested near the U.S. Capitol after exiting a white Mercedes SUV and running toward the building carrying a loaded shotgun; Senate Republicans have lined up at least 50 votes for the Trump-backed SAVE America Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote and mandate photo ID nationwide; the U.S. military destroyed three small boats in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean, killing all 11 people aboard; Stephen Colbert said CBS lawyers stopped him from airing an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate; a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore slavery-related exhibits that the National Park Service removed from the site in Philadelphia where George Washington lived as president; Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who helped define Black political power after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and twice ran for president, died; 39% of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance with 56% disapproving; and 38% of Americans approve Trump’s immigration policies – the lowest level since his return to the White House and down from 50% from a year ago. Feb 17, 2026