2019 Day 879: The Supreme Court ruled that criminal defendants may be prosecuted for the same offenses in both federal and state court; U.S. Cyber Command hacked and deployed malware inside Russia's power grid without Trump's knowledge; Trump accused The New York Times of committing a "virtual act of treason"; and Trump's re-election campaign fired several pollsters after leaked internal polling showed he trailed Joe Biden in 11 battleground states. Jun 17, 2019
2020 Day 1245: At least 10 states reported either new single-day highs or set a record for seven-day new case averages of the coronavirus; Pence incorrectly argued that the spike in coronavirus cases is a function of more testing; John Bolton claimed that Trump personally asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 presidential election; Trump is considering suing his niece to prevent her from publishing her tell-all book about him; and Officials in Tulsa have asked the Trump campaign to cancel his campaign rally on Saturday, calling it "the perfect storm of potential over-the-top disease transmission." Jun 17, 2020
2021 Day 149: The Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act for the third time; Mitch McConnell rejected Joe Manchin's voting rights compromise offer; the Biden administration will invest $3.2 billion to advance the development of antiviral pills to treat Covid-19 and other viruses; the Education Department canceled more than $500 million in federal student loan debt for 18,000 borrowers who were defrauded; Biden signed legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S.; and a Florida GOP congressional candidate threatened his Republican opponent with “a Russian and Ukrainian hit squad” that would make her “disappear.” Jun 17, 2021
2024 Day 1245: The U.S. surgeon general called for social media companies to include a surgeon general’s warning label stating that the platforms can harm people’s mental health; a federal judge blocked the Biden administration from enforcing new protections for LGBTQ+ students in six states; the Supreme Court overturned a federal ban on bump stocks; House Republicans passed defense policy legislation that would restrict access to abortion and transgender medical care in the military; and Trump confused the name of his former White House physician immediately after demanding that Biden “should have to take a cognitive test.” Jun 17, 2024
2025 Day 1610: Trump abruptly left the G7 summit in Canada and returned to Washington as the Israel-Iran conflict escalated; Trump held a closed-door national security meeting to weigh a possible U.S. strike on Iran’s Fordo nuclear site; a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced resolutions to block Trump from ordering U.S. military strikes on Iran without congressional approval; Trump said he won’t call Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after a gunman killed a Democratic state representative and wounded a state senator in what authorities called a targeted political attack; the Senate Republicans’ revised version of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would slash Medicaid spending, shrink the child tax credit, and cap state and local tax deductions at $10,000; the House Republicans’ tax and spending bill would add $2.8 trillion to the deficit over the next decade – more than previously estimated – because higher interest costs outweigh the modest economic growth it would generate; 64% of Americans have an unfavorable view of Trump’s "One Big Beautiful Bill"; and 66% of Americans have heard either little or nothing about the House Republican’s spending bill. Jun 17, 2025
2026 Day 1975: The U.S. and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding to end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and start 60 days of nuclear talks; Trump "canceled" the Senate’s plan to quickly confirm his director of national intelligence nominee, directing Jay Clayton not to appear at his confirmation hearing hours before it was set to begin; Georgia Republicans rejected Gov. Brian Kemp’s plan to redraw congressional and legislative maps during a special session; the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady but moved closer to raising them this year; the Trump administration will pay $765 million to abandon four offshore wind leases; at least 776,000 children have lost SNAP benefits since Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill took effect; and 51% of Americans say they're extremely or very proud of being American – down from 82% in 2013. Jun 17, 2026