Which major bills did President Donald J. Trump sign in 2025 and on what dates?
Executive summary
President Donald J. Trump signed a small number of headline federal statutes in 2025, most prominently the sprawling One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) on July 4, 2025, while other laws with narrower profiles — including the Take It Down Act and an Epstein Files Transparency measure — were also enacted during the year though public reporting does not always give precise signature dates for each statute [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. Congressional productivity was low overall in 2025, with some outlets counting only 38 bills sent to the president’s desk for signature, a context that helps explain why a few large omnibus measures dominated coverage [5].
1. H.R.1 — “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: a legislative centerpiece signed July 4, 2025
The signature legislative moment of the year was H.R.1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (also referred to as the Big Beautiful Bill or OBBBA), which President Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025; multiple government and civil-society trackers describe the statute as a sweeping package of tax, spending and policy changes central to the administration’s domestic agenda [1] [2] [3]. Reporting and official summaries say the law permanently extended the individual tax rates enacted in 2017, created new tax and benefit structures (including so-called “Trump Accounts” and other deductions), instituted a national school-voucher program, and imposed cuts and changes projected to substantially alter federal revenues and spending over a decade — claims tracked and critiqued by independent analysts cited in contemporaneous coverage [3] [6]. The law’s passage and signing on a symbolic holiday underscored its political prominence and sharply divided partisan reactions in Congress and among advocacy groups [3].
2. The Take It Down Act: a child-protection bill signed in May 2025 (per White House)
Administration communications state that President Trump signed the Take It Down Act in May 2025, framing the statute as a measure championed by the First Lady to protect young Americans from deepfake exploitation and to safeguard children’s dignity and privacy online; this description appears in an official White House fact sheet summarizing related 2025 actions [4]. The fact sheet situates the Take It Down Act alongside executive actions on artificial intelligence and rules intended to prevent a patchwork of state AI laws, indicating an executive-branch policy push on digital-safety themes in spring 2025 [4]. Independent legal and policy analyses of the bill’s scope, enforcement mechanisms and constitutional challenges are not detailed in the provided sources.
3. Epstein Files Transparency Act and other notable statutes: enacted in 2025, date not always specified in reporting
Several smaller but politically salient statutes also reached the president’s desk in 2025. The Epstein Files Transparency Act was reported to have been brought to the House by a discharge petition, cleared Congress, and was signed by President Trump in 2025 according to coverage summarizing the year’s limited legislative output, but that reporting does not give a definitive signature date in the excerpts provided [5]. The Independent highlighted how such measures were among the few bills that survived a Congress otherwise described as largely inactive in 2025, a framing that implicitly credits these statutes with outsized public visibility relative to their number [5]. Where sources do not provide exact signing dates, this analysis refrains from inventing specifics and instead flags the gap in publicly cited reporting.
4. H.R.5371 — a continuing appropriations measure signed in November 2025
A White House briefing lists H.R.5371, the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military measure, as having been signed into law on November 12, 2025, indicating the administration also signed typical must-pass funding legislation late in the year [7]. This item illustrates that, beyond headline policy megabills, the president still executed routine congressional appropriations and continuing resolutions as part of governing operations [7].
5. How to read these enactments: agendas, media focus, and reporting limits
Coverage and government releases together show a clear narrative choice: a handful of major items — chiefly the One Big Beautiful Bill — were emphasized by the administration and many outlets, reflecting both political priorities and the fact that relatively few bills were enacted overall in 2025 [2] [3] [5]. Sources used here come from the White House, congressional trackers, and national press; each carries implicit agendas — official releases promote administration achievements while media summaries emphasize controversy or productivity — and some items cited in secondary reporting lack full procedural detail such as exact signature dates in the excerpts supplied, a limitation that constrains precise cataloging beyond the items with explicit dates in the sources [4] [5] [7].