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The United States on September 14, 2017

Who held every office, how Congress and the Court were made up, and what happened within a week. Diff this day against today →

President

Trump

Donald J. Trump R · since Jan 20, 2017

Senate

52 R · 48 D

100 senators · 115th Congress

House

240 R · 194 D

434 representatives

Supreme Court

5 R · 4 D

9 justices by appointing party

Union

50 states

27 amendments in force

Unemployment

4.4%

Aug 2017 · $1 then ≈ $1.37 today

Public debt

$20.2T

as of Sep 14, 2017 · 7 armed conflicts

2017-09-14/executiveThe administration

President Donald J. Trump R

since Jan 20, 2017

Vice President Mike Pence R

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis

since Jan 20, 2017

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mike Pompeo R

since Jan 23, 2017

Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley R

since Jan 27, 2017

Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao R

since Jan 31, 2017

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson R

since Feb 1, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos R

since Feb 7, 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions R

since Feb 9, 2017

Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price R

since Feb 10, 2017

Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin R

since Feb 13, 2017

Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin I

since Feb 14, 2017

Administrator of the Small Business Administration Linda McMahon R

since Feb 14, 2017

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney R

since Feb 16, 2017

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt R

since Feb 17, 2017

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross Jr. R

since Feb 28, 2017

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke R

since Mar 1, 2017

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry R

since Mar 2, 2017

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson R

since Mar 2, 2017

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats R

since Mar 16, 2017

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue D

since Apr 25, 2017

Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta R

since Apr 28, 2017

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer R

since May 15, 2017

Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke R (acting)

since Jul 31, 2017

White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly R

since Jul 31, 2017

2017-09-14/congress115th Congress

Senate · 52 R · 48 D

House · 240 R · 194 D

2017-09-14/supreme-courtThe bench

Anthony McLeod Kennedy R

Associate Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Feb 11, 1988

Clarence Thomas R

Associate Justice · appointed by George H.W. Bush · since Oct 18, 1991

Ruth Bader Ginsburg D

Associate Justice · appointed by William J. Clinton · since Aug 5, 1993

Stephen Gerald Breyer D

Associate Justice · appointed by William J. Clinton · since Aug 3, 1994

John Glover Roberts, Jr. R

Chief Justice · appointed by George W. Bush · since Sep 29, 2005

Samuel A. Alito, Jr. R

Associate Justice · appointed by George W. Bush · since Jan 31, 2006

Sonia Sotomayor D

Associate Justice · appointed by Barack Obama · since Aug 6, 2009

Elena Kagan D

Associate Justice · appointed by Barack Obama · since Aug 6, 2010

Neil M. Gorsuch R

Associate Justice · appointed by Donald J. Trump · since Apr 8, 2017

2017-09-14/militaryArmed conflicts under way

War against al-Qaida

since Sep 11, 2001 · U.S. principal party

War in Afghanistan (Taliban insurgency)

since Jan 1, 2003 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat

Iraq: insurgency and war against IS

since Aug 8, 2014 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat

Somalia: al-Shabaab

since Jan 1, 2015 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat

Afghanistan: Islamic State

since Mar 3, 2015 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat

Libya: Islamic State

since Jan 1, 2016 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat

Niger: Islamic State

since Jan 1, 2017 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat

2017-09-14/weekWithin a week · Sep 7, 2017 – Sep 21, 2017

Law Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 and Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Requirements Act, 2017

Sep 8, 2017 · Pub. L. 115-56

Law Emergency Aid to American Survivors of Hurricanes Irma and Jose Overseas Act

Sep 12, 2017 · Pub. L. 115-57

Law A joint resolution condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place during events between August 11 and 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing the first responders who lost their lives while monitoring the events, offering deepest condolences to the families and friends of those individuals who were killed and deepest sympathies and support to those individuals who were injured by the violence, expressing support for the Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, and urging the President and the President's Cabinet to use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups.

Sep 14, 2017 · Pub. L. 115-58

Law Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act of 2017

Sep 15, 2017 · Pub. L. 115-59

Agency + National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service

Sep 19, 2017 · independent_agency

Order Imposing Additional Sanctions With Respect to North Korea

Sep 20, 2017 · EO 13810

Each office is shown as it stood at the end of the day. Cabinet records come from Wikidata and have gaps for some historical offices.