2019 Day 838: The White House invoked executive privilege and ordered Donald McGahn not to comply with a congressional subpoena; Mitch McConnell called the investigations into Trump and his 2016 campaign "case closed"; and New York State lawmakers plan to advance a bill this week to allow congressional committees to see Trump's New York State returns. May 7, 2019
2020 Day 1204: An additional 3.2 million Americans filed unemployment claims last week; the Trump administration rejected CDC guidelines to help states and business owners safely reopen, calling the guidance "overly prescriptive"; more than half of the states that have started to reopen don't meet the criteria recommended by the White House for resuming business and social activities; one of Trump's personal valets tested positive for the coronavirus; Trump contradicted a nurse who said that some parts of the country were experiencing shortages of protective medical gear; the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block the release of secret Robert Mueller grand jury evidence; and the Justice Department dropped its prosecution of Michael Flynn. May 7, 2020
2021 Day 108: The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in April; Texas and Florida approved new, more restrictive state election rules; the Justice Department filed federal criminal charges against Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers in connection with the death of George Floyd; the top respiratory disease official at the CDC resigned; and Trump's Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of three Washington Post journalists. May 7, 2021
2024 Day 1204: Israeli forces seized the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt; the Biden administration is expected notify Congress this week about whether it believes Israel has violated U.S. or international law in Gaza; Stormy Daniels testified in Trump’s his election interference trial involving falsified business records; Judge Juan Merchan rejected Trump’s request for a mistrial; Marjorie Taylor Greene – again – threatened to force a vote on ousting Mike Johnson as speaker unless he defunds the special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump; and the judge in Trump’s classified documents case indefinitely suspended the deadline for a key court filing in the criminal proceeding. May 7, 2024
2025 Day 1569: The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at 4.25% to 4.5%, warning that Trump’s tariffs risk both higher unemployment and higher inflation; House Republicans pushed through a late-night amendment to sell more than 11,000 acres of federal land in Utah and Nevada as part of Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax cut package; House Speaker Mike Johnson dropped two Republican proposals to cut Medicaid after a government report showed they would push up to 10 million people off health insurance; 32 House Republicans warned Republican leaders they will block Trump’s legislative package unless it includes at least $2 trillion in concrete spending cuts; the Trump administration plans to deport undocumented migrants to Libya, a country the State Department describes as plagued by “crime, terrorism, kidnapping and armed conflict; and Trump teased an “earth-shattering” announcement ahead of his Middle East trip next week, but refused to provide details. May 7, 2025
2026 Day 1934: Chief Justice John Roberts claimed that Supreme Court justices aren't “political actors” and that the court isn't a political institution; Tennessee Republicans enacted a new congressional map that breaks up majority-Black Memphis, likely eliminating the state’s only Democratic House seat; Trump called for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to be charged with “INCITING VIOLENCE,” in an attempt to link Jeffries’ “maximum warfare” language about redistricting to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting; a federal judge let the Justice Department keep more than 600 boxes of 2020 election ballots and records seized from Fulton County, Georgia, despite finding flaws in the FBI warrant; the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that Trump’s 10% tariff on most imports was illegal; and 80% of Americans support age caps for members of Congress. May 7, 2026