On June 21, President Donald Trump informed the world (via tweet) that, after getting US forces "cocked and loaded" to carry out strikes on Iranian targets the night before, he had canceled those strikes at the last minute rather than prospectively kill 150 people. "Not proportionate," he wrote, "to [Iranian forces] shooting down an unmanned drone" earlier that week.

On June 14 — "Flag Day" in the United States — US Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) and US Representative Steve Womack (R-AR) proposed a constitutional amendment: "The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." President Donald Trump promptly indicated his support for the amendment via Twitter, calling it a "no-brainer."

"We can't arrest our way out of this. We can't shelter our way out of this. We have to house our way out of this," Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said last year while campaigning for a measure to spend $1.2 billion in tax-payer money over ten years on housing for his city's homeless population.

On June 5, former vice-president Joe Biden's presidential campaign confirmed to The Hill that Biden still supports the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of federal tax-payer funds for abortions (with exceptions). His opponents instantly piled on, hoping to erase his commanding lead in the Democratic Party's 2020 presidential primary polls.