¶ United States Federal Government
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The United States Federal Government is the national government of the United States. It is made up of three branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial.
¶ Executive branch
The executive branch is led by the President of the United States at the White House in Washington, D.C. and supported by a system of departments, staff organizations and independent agencies. The current President is Joe Biden, who took office from Donald Trump in January 2021.
¶ Organization
A number of staff organizations are grouped into the Executive Office of the President of the United States.[1]
Departments
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- United States Department of Commerce (DOC)
- United States Department of Defense (DOD)
- United States Department of Education
- United States Department of Energy (DOE)
- United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- United States Department of Justice (DOJ)
- United States Department of State (DOS)
- United States Department of the Treasury (USDT)
- United States Department of Transportation (DOT)
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Independent agencies
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Federal Election Commission (FEC)
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
- Peace Corps
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Selective Service System (SSS)
- United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM)
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- United States Postal Service (USPS)
Government-owned corporations
- Amtrak
- Export-Import Bank of the United States
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
¶ Legislative branch
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government, made up of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
¶ Judicial branch
The federal judiciary of the United States makes up the judicial branch of the United States Federal Government. It is composed of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), the United States Courts of Appeals, and the United States District Courts, as well as a variety of other lesser federal tribunals.
¶ External links
The Executive Branch. The White House. Retrieved May 12, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.05.12-150631/https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-executive-branch/ ↩︎