Every public law enacted and every bill vetoed in Donald Trump’s second term, from the Laken Riley Act in January 2025 to the latest laws of the 119th Congress.
Last verified . Law count checked against GovInfo twice a day.
134 public laws have been enacted in Trump’s second term. The latest verified one is P.L. 119-134, the License to Drill Act, enacted October 20, 2026. Trump has vetoed 2 bills; Congress has overridden none of them.
The 119th Congress also passed 2 private laws, both on March 26, 2026, authorizing Medals of Honor for individual service members. Two public laws, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (P.L. 119-101) and the Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act (P.L. 119-102), became law in July 2026 without the president’s signature when the 10-day window passed while Congress was in session.
Major spending, tax, regulatory and policy laws, newest first. Many of the other laws name post offices, convey federal land or reauthorize existing programs.
| Public law | Law | Enacted | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| P.L. 119-111 | Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 H.R. 5334 Defense & security | Codifies sanctions on Russia and extends the Iran Sanctions Act. Passed the Senate 86–11 and the House 262–159. | |
| P.L. 119-103 | Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027 H.R. 6500 Appropriations | Stopgap funding for fiscal 2027 through Dec. 11, 2026, avoiding a shutdown on Oct. 1. Passed the Senate 90–6 and the House 370–48. | |
| P.L. 119-101 | 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act H.R. 6644 Policy | Housing supply package. Became law without the president’s signature after the 10-day window passed. | |
| P.L. 119-98 | Secure America Act S. 2 Reconciliation | Second budget reconciliation law of the term, with roughly $70 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. Passed the House 214–212. | |
| P.L. 119-86 | Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026 H.R. 7147 Appropriations | Ended the lapse in Department of Homeland Security appropriations that began in mid-February 2026. | |
| P.L. 119-85 | Disapproval of BLM Public Land Order 7917 H.J.Res. 140 Regulatory (CRA) | Congressional Review Act resolution overturning the mineral withdrawal near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters. | |
| P.L. 119-75 | Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 H.R. 7148 Appropriations | Five full-year fiscal 2026 spending bills plus short-term Homeland Security funding; ended a partial shutdown that began Jan. 31. Passed the House 217–214. | |
| P.L. 119-74 | Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026 H.R. 6938 Appropriations | Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for three of the 12 annual spending bills. | |
| P.L. 119-69 | Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025 S. 222 Policy | Allows schools in the federal lunch program to serve whole and reduced-fat milk. | |
| P.L. 119-60 | National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 S. 1071 Defense & security | Annual authorization of Defense Department programs and policy. | |
| P.L. 119-47 to 119-52 | Disapproval of six BLM land-use plans S.J.Res. 80; H.J.Res. 104–106, 130, 131 Regulatory (CRA) | Overturned Bureau of Land Management plans including the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska plan and the ANWR Coastal Plain leasing program. | |
| P.L. 119-38 | Epstein Files Transparency Act H.R. 4405 Policy | Requires the Justice Department to publish its unclassified records on Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days. | |
| P.L. 119-37 | Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 H.R. 5371 Appropriations | Ended the 43-day shutdown that began Oct. 1, 2025, with full-year funding for three bills and stopgap funding through Jan. 30, 2026. | |
| P.L. 119-28 | Rescissions Act of 2025 H.R. 4 Appropriations | Cancels about $9 billion in previously approved funding, mostly foreign aid and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. | |
| P.L. 119-27 | GENIUS Act S. 1582 Policy | Creates a federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins. | |
| P.L. 119-26 | HALT Fentanyl Act S. 331 Defense & security | Permanently places fentanyl-related substances in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. | |
| P.L. 119-21 | One Big Beautiful Bill Act H.R. 1 Reconciliation | Budget reconciliation law extending the 2017 tax cuts, changing Medicaid and SNAP, raising immigration enforcement and defense spending and lifting the debt limit. | |
| P.L. 119-15 to 119-17 | Disapproval of California Clean Air Act waivers H.J.Res. 87, 88, 89 Regulatory (CRA) | Revoked EPA waivers for California’s Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks and Omnibus Low-NOx rules. GAO had said the waivers were not rules subject to the Congressional Review Act. | |
| P.L. 119-12 | TAKE IT DOWN Act S. 146 Policy | Criminalizes publishing nonconsensual intimate images, including AI deepfakes, and requires platforms to remove them within 48 hours of a request. | |
| P.L. 119-10 | Disapproval of CFPB overdraft rule S.J.Res. 18 Regulatory (CRA) | Overturned the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule capping overdraft fees at large banks. | |
| P.L. 119-5 | Disapproval of IRS DeFi broker rule H.J.Res. 25 Regulatory (CRA) | Overturned an IRS rule that would have required decentralized crypto platforms to report as brokers. | |
| P.L. 119-4 | Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 H.R. 1968 Appropriations | Funded the government for the rest of fiscal 2025 at roughly prior-year levels. | |
| P.L. 119-1 | Laken Riley Act S. 5 Defense & security | First law of the second term. Requires federal detention of noncitizens without legal status who are charged with theft, burglary and certain violent crimes. |
Full list: Congress.gov public laws, 119th Congress.
Overriding a veto takes a two-thirds vote in both the House and the Senate. In his first term Trump vetoed 10 bills and Congress overrode 1, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, on January 1, 2021.
Would have changed repayment terms for a federal water pipeline project in southeastern Colorado. Passed both chambers by voice vote.
Status: Veto sustained
Sources: White House veto message · Congress.gov — H.R. 131
Would have added land in the Florida Everglades to the Miccosukee Tribe’s reserved area. Passed both chambers by voice vote.
Status: Veto sustained
Sources: White House veto message · Congress.gov — H.R. 504
Public laws enacted by October 22 of each Congress’s second year, the same point the 119th Congress has reached now.
Counts are tallied from enactment dates in each Congress’s list of public laws (Congress.gov, GovInfo). Every recent Congress has enacted a large share of its laws after October of its second year, mostly in the post-election lame-duck session. Law counts measure volume, not significance: the 2025 reconciliation law and a post office renaming each count as one.
The Congressional Review Act lets Congress overturn recent federal regulations by simple majority in both chambers, with the president’s signature. Trump signed 22 CRA disapproval resolutions in 2025, more than in any previous year, and 23 in the 119th Congress so far. The previous high for a whole Congress was 16, in the 115th Congress (2017–2018), during Trump’s first term.
Targets included Biden-era rules on bank overdraft fees, crypto broker reporting, California’s vehicle-emissions waivers and several Bureau of Land Management land-use plans.
134 public laws have been enacted since Trump returned to office on January 20, 2025, all in the 119th Congress. The latest verified law is P.L. 119-134, the License to Drill Act, enacted October 20, 2026. Two of them, P.L. 119-101 and 119-102, became law without his signature. Congress also passed 2 private laws.
2. On December 29, 2025, Trump vetoed H.R. 131, the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act, and H.R. 504, the Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act. The House voted to override both on January 8, 2026, but neither vote reached the two-thirds majority required, so no veto has been overridden.
The Laken Riley Act (P.L. 119-1), signed January 29, 2025. It requires federal detention of noncitizens without legal status who are charged with theft, burglary and certain violent crimes.
By October 22 of its second year, the 119th Congress had enacted 134 public laws. At the same point, the 118th Congress (2023–2024) had enacted 106, the 117th Congress (2021–2022) had enacted 214, the 116th Congress (2019–2020) had enacted 182, the 115th Congress (2017–2018) had enacted 269. So it is ahead of the 118th Congress but behind the three before it. Most laws in any Congress are enacted in its final months, including the lame-duck session after the election.
22 in 2025, the most in a single year since the Congressional Review Act was passed in 1996, and 23 in the 119th Congress as of October 22, 2026. The previous high for a whole Congress was 16, in the 115th Congress (2017–2018), during Trump’s first term.
Trump vetoed 10 bills from 2017 to 2021. Congress overrode 1: the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, on January 1, 2021.
Public law numbers and dates are from Congress.gov. GovInfo publishes the official slip-law text, usually a few weeks after enactment. Spotted an error? Contact us.
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