# Obama signs the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Date: 2009 ## The fact On 17 February 2009, in Denver, President Obama signed H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, as Public Law 111-5, a roughly $787 billion stimulus of spending, tax cuts, and aid to states. ## Context The 2008 crash and TARP sat as parents. Neighbouring auto restructuring is a child industrial file. He did not sit as CBO or as the Fed. Pelosi’s House and a Senate text share authorship. Lilly Ledbetter is the first-statute parent. Auto 1 June 2009 is a child. Sequester 2013 is a later fiscal child of a different bargain. A United States president proposes, signs, vetoes, and directs the executive. Congress enacts statutes. The Federal Reserve, states, courts, and later presidents share later series. Office-holding is not authorship of every later outcome. Allegation is not a completed judgment. Legislative achievements require shared congressional attribution. He does not set the federal funds rate, write a state Medicaid waiver by himself, or convert a 2009 oath into a unique 2016 uninsured coefficient. A signature is not unique authorship of a House and Senate text. A troop order is not authorship of every later round. He is not president as of 27 August 2026. [Donald Trump](/people/mig-donald-trump) is president from 20 January 2025. [Joe Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) was president 2021–2025. ## Evidence and sources White House (archives) carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [household purchasing power](/drivers/household-purchasing-power) and [labour-market tightness](/drivers/labour-market-tightness): a completed demand pulse after a crash, remaining later deficit named. ## What is established and what is not Established: 17 February 2009 signature of Public Law 111-5, independently reported. Not established: a unique later GDP coefficient from that Tuesday, or that every job uniquely sat because of one line-item. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Congress enacted. Agencies, states, and the Fed share later series.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Obama signs the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, not a later speech about Obama signs the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Obama signs the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on 2009-02-17 is not a licence to treat every later White House (archives) communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Obama signs the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He signed. Congress enacted. Agencies, states, and the Fed share later series. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Barack Obama: https://factrail.ai/people/barack-obama ## Drivers - Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power - Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-stimulus-idUSTRE51G3YW20090217 - https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-and-vice-president-signing-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-arra-2009