2019 Day 797: Trump pledged to have a plan "far better than Obamacare" because he "understands health care now"; a key Republican told Trump his healthcare plan "makes no sense"; Betsy DeVos defended her proposal to eliminate $17.6 million in federal funding for the Special Olympics; and Mueller's grand jury is "continuing robustly" despite the end of his investigation. Mar 27, 2019
2020 Day 1163: The House passed the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package and Trump signed it into law; Trump ordered General Motors to produce 40,000 ventilators under the Defense Production Act hours after criticizing the company on Twitter; Trump notified U.S. governors that his administration will be issuing new guidelines about "maintaining, increasing or relaxing social distancing and other mitigation measures"; and Jared Kushner’s shadow coronavirus task force appears to be violating both the Presidential Records Act and Federal Advisory Committee Act. Mar 27, 2020
2023 Day 797: A 28-year-old woman shot and killed three children and three staff members at a Christian school in Nashville before being shot and killed by the police; Trump threatened “potential death & destruction” if he's indicted by the Manhattan grand jury; former publisher of the National Enquirer testified before the Manhattan grand jury investigating Trump's role in a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels; a federal judge ordered Mark Meadows and other former Trump aides to testify to the grand jury investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election; the Fox News producer who sued the network alleging she was "conditioned and coerced" to give false testimony in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems has been fired; Kentucky’s Democratic governor vetoed a Republican bill that would prohibit transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming care; and 38% of Americans said patriotism was very important to them – down from 70% in 1998. Mar 27, 2023
2024 Day 1163: An Alabama Democrat won a special election in the state Legislature after making in vitro fertilization and abortion rights central to her campaign; the Biden administration pledged to rebuild Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge after a 984-foot cargo ship hit a pillar, causing it to collapse; a federal appeals court blocked Texas’ plan to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S.; in a reversal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will send officials to Washington for talks about his planned military operation in Rafah; and Trump repeatedly attacked the New York judge – and the judge's daughter – who imposed a gag order limiting what he can say about his upcoming criminal hush money trial. Mar 27, 2024
2025 Day 1528: The Department of Health and Human Services will cut 10,000 jobs; the Trump administration is preparing to lay off between 8% to 50% of federal workers across 22 agencies under a February executive order to shrink government to its “minimum essential functions”; Attorney General Pam Bondi said she is unlikely to launch a criminal investigation into a Signal group chat in which Trump officials shared sensitive military plans for a Yemen airstrike; the private contact information and passwords of top Trump national security officials – including Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hegseth – were publicly accessible online; Trump suggested that he may lower tariffs on China to help secure a deal for the sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations. Mar 27, 2025