American Timelines
Sample

2025 Executive Order to Close U.S. Department of Education (Trump 47) Exec. Order No. 14242 (Mar. 20, 2025)
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/25/2025-05213/improving-education-outcomes-by-empowering-parents-states-and-communities
  • Formal title “Improving Education Outcomes” by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities”
  • Core U.S. Department of Education (DOE) functions to be left to the States
  • See also EHA (now IDEA) (Nov. 29, 1975)
  • See also Land Ordinance (May 20, 1785)
  • See also First Public School Opens in Boston (Apr. 23, 1635)
2025 Kennedy Center Leadership Changes (Feb. 13, 2025) (Trump 47)
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/white-house-press-release-president-trump-announces-appointments-the-board-trustees-the#
https://www.kennedy-center.org/news-room/press-release-landing-page/kennedy-center-board-elects--president-donald-j.-trump-as-board-chair/
  • See also National Cultural Center Act (NCCA) (Sept. 2, 1958)
2025 Executive Order for the Department of Government Efficiency (Trump 47) Exec. Order No. 14158 (Jan. 20, 2025)
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/29/2025-02005/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency
  • Formal title “Establishing and Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency”
  • Drastic, hasty reductions of federal workforce
  • See also Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (Jan. 16, 1883)
2022 Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 (Biden) Pub. L. 117-328, 136 Stat. 4459, 4461 (Dec. 29, 2022)
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-117publ328/pdf/PLAW-117publ328.pdf
  • Applicable to U.S. presidential elections
  • Clarifies process by which federal and state governments count electoral votes
  • Response to events of January 6, 2021
  • See also Presidential Succession Act (July 18, 1947)
2022 Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act (Biden) Pub. L. 117-125, 136 Stat. 1205 (May 13, 2022)
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-117publ125/pdf/PLAW-117publ125.pdf
  • Transparency requirements for federal judges
    • Online publication of federal judges’ financial disclosure reports
    • Periodic transaction reports for certain securities transactions