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The United States on October 20, 2019

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

53 R · 47 D

100 senators · 116th Congress

House

234 D · 197 R

432 representatives

Supreme Court

5 R · 4 D

9 justices by appointing party

Union

50 states

27 amendments in force

Unemployment

3.5%

Sep 2019 · $1 then ≈ $1.31 today

Public debt

$22.9T

as of Oct 18, 2019 · 7 armed conflicts

2019-10-20/executiveThe administration

President Donald J. Trump R

since Jan 20, 2017

Vice President Mike Pence R

Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao R

since Jan 31, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos R

since Feb 7, 2017

Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin R

since Feb 13, 2017

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney R

since Feb 16, 2017

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross Jr. R

since Feb 28, 2017

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry R

since Mar 2, 2017

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson R

since Mar 2, 2017

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue D

since Apr 25, 2017

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer R

since May 15, 2017

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar R

since Jan 29, 2018

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Gina Haspel R

since Mar 13, 2018

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie R

since Mar 28, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo R

since Apr 26, 2018

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Andrew R. Wheeler R

since Jul 9, 2018

White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney R (acting)

since Jan 2, 2019

Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt R (acting)

since Jan 2, 2019

Attorney General William Barr R

since Feb 14, 2019

Administrator of the Small Business Administration Chris Pilkerton R

since Apr 13, 2019

Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper R

since Jul 22, 2019

Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire (acting)

since Aug 16, 2019

Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft R

since Sep 12, 2019

Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia R

since Sep 30, 2019

2019-10-20/congress116th Congress

Senate · 53 R · 47 D

House · 234 D · 197 R · 1 I

2019-10-20/supreme-courtThe bench

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

Brett M. Kavanaugh R

Associate Justice · appointed by Donald J. Trump · since Oct 6, 2018

2019-10-20/militaryArmed conflicts under way

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

Niger: Islamic State

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

Kenya: al-Shabaab

since Jan 1, 2019 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat

Somalia: Islamic State

since Jun 4, 2019 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat

2019-10-20/weekWithin a week · Oct 13, 2019 – Oct 27, 2019

Order Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Syria

Oct 14, 2019 · EO 13894

Order President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Oct 22, 2019 · EO 13895

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.