President Thomas Jefferson signed the Embargo Act, imposing a nationwide ban on American exports and forbidding U.S. vessels from engaging in foreign trade.
Intended as a peaceful coercive measure against British and French maritime seizures and impressment, the embargo dealt a severe blow to the U.S. economy, provoked widespread domestic opposition, and became a defining and controversial element of Jefferson's foreign- and economic policy.
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The Senate Majority Leader filed a cloture motion to bring the House-passed short-term bill—authorizing enforcement of the administration's deportation priorities pending litigation—up for debate and a vote in the Senate.
The Republican-controlled House passed emergency legislation aimed at authorizing executive-branch enforcement priorities for deportations while courts adjudicate the injunction.
President Trump signed a congressional supplemental appropriations bill providing federal disaster relief funding to states affected by the Midwest spring floods.
President Trump met with bipartisan congressional leaders to discuss a potential border-security and asylum reform package aimed at strengthening enforcement and streamlining adjudication.