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February 7, 2017: Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. This was the first time in United States history that a cabinet confirmation was tied in the Senate and required a tie-breaking vote. [10] [11] February 28, 2017: President Trump addressed a joint session of Congress.
President Trump’s toppling of the U.S. Agency for International Development this week offered the public its clearest view yet of the chaotic four years to come. Trump’s strategy of ...
Following the 2024 elections, the Republican Party retained its slim majority in the House, won the majority in the Senate, and with Trump's second inauguration on January 20, 2025, have an overall federal government trifecta for the first time since the 115th Congress in 2017, which was in session during Trump's first term. The 119th Congress ...
December 18, 2019: First impeachment of Donald Trump: House impeached President Trump. January 16, 2020 – February 5, 2020: First impeachment of Donald Trump: Impeachment trial of Donald Trump; February 4, 2020: 2020 State of the Union Address; March 11, 2020 – present: COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Republicans' exact majority in the House will shift over the first few weeks of Trump's second term, as Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. and Mike Waltz, R-Fla., plan to leave Congress for roles in his ...
August 8, 2022: The FBI executes a search warrant at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence. August 12, 2022: The House voted 220–207 to pass the Inflation Reduction Act. August 16, 2022: President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. August 24, 2022: President Biden canceled up to $20,000 in student loan debt.
Exactly four years after an angry mob of Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol trying to stop the congressional certification of President Joe Biden's 2020 victory, Congress will once again ...
Democrats in Congress have proposed a measure to clarify that the 22nd Amendment expressly forbids a third term in office, and 78-year-old Trump, soon to be the oldest president in history, has at ...