Most civilian agencies would face significant budget reductions in fiscal 2027 under the budget proposal President Donald Trump’s sent to Congress Friday.
Overall non-defense discretionary spending would drop $73.4 billion compared to what Congress enacted in 2026. That would mean a 10% cut, with several agencies — the Small Business Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Labor and NASA seeing reductions of more than 20%.
“The president also brought discretionary spending under control [in 2026]. The full-year 2026 appropriations bills enacted the first real cut to spending in 12 years. These final appropriations bills rooted out wasteful spending that the administration had identified across federal agencies. The enacted bills also put us on a path to eliminate ineffective federal agencies that do not serve a useful purpose, eliminating all programming for the U.S. Agency for International Development as the administration works to fully turn off the lights at the agency. This also includes the complete elimination of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,” wrote Russell Vought, the director of OMB, in the budget document. “The 2027 budget builds on the president’s vision by continuing to constrain non-defense spending and reform the federal government. The budget proposes a 10% cut compared to 2026 non-defense levels. Within this total, the budget maintains investments in border security and immigration enforcement while protecting the nation from threats of terrorism; delivers on the president’s commitment to support law enforcement and ensure they have the tools, technology, and resources necessary to keep themselves and Americans safe; and honors the nation’s sacred obligation to military veterans.”
Federal News Network has compiled the top line budget requests for the CFO Act agencies, compared the request to what Congress enacted in 2026, and also collected excerpts from the new request of where the administration is proposing increases or reductions.
Agriculture
2027: $20.8 billion
2026: 25.7 billion enacted
Change: A reduction of $4.9 billion or 19%
Rural Business Service (RBS) would see an $82 million reduction compared to 2026. The administration says some of the agency’s programs are redundant, as the Small Business Administration already spends a significant amount supporting rural businesses.
Commerce
2027: $9.2 billion
2026: $10.5 billion
Change: Reduction of $1.3 billion or 12.2%
The administration would eliminate the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), cutting its budget of $47 million. The White House says MBDA promotes certain activities that violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 2024, a U.S. District Court found MBDA’s presumption of “social disadvantage based on race or ethnicity” in its funding decisions to be unconstitutional.
Defense Department
2027: $1.5 trillion
2026: $1 trillion
Change: Increase of $441 billion or 44%
The Defense Department wants to create a dedicated combat and operational medicine program account by protecting and prioritizing resources required to sustain warfighter health and medical readiness. “This structural approach ensures funding for essential battlefield medicine and medical force generation are managed alongside other warfighting capabilities. The budget also invests in predictive analytics to modernize how the department assesses and manages the health and readiness of the force. By leveraging integrated medical data and advanced analytics, the department can identify readiness risks earlier, accelerate return-to-duty decisions, and better anticipate medical force generation gaps. This investment improves warfighter availability, strengthens readiness at speed, and supports faster, data-driven command decisions.”
The White House also is realigning funding from the sustainment of aging, legacy platforms toward investments in next-generation, cutting edge capabilities. This includes funding investment in new research and development and the procurement of new equipment. “By redirecting funding back toward productive investments consistent with E.O. 14265, ‘Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base,’ the budget aims to expand the industrial base and deliver new innovations to the warfighter at speed.”
Education
2027: $76.5 billion
2026: $78.8 billion
Change: Reduction of $2.3 billion or 2.9%
The White House says the request advances efforts underway to dismantle the federal education bureaucracy, including reducing the department’s staff and transferring programs to other agencies.
Energy
2027: $53.9 billion
2026: $49.1 billion
Change: Increase of $4.8 billion or 10%
Within the request is $32.8 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which is a $3.6 billion or 12% increase from the 2026 enacted level.
The White House wants to invest $1.2 billion in the department’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) and the ways it can improve energy systems and outcomes across the DoE enterprise.
The request also includes a governmentwide prohibition on publishing and subscription fees. The White House says the budget ends the diversion of research dollars to high priced publishers across the government. It prohibits the use of federal funds for expensive subscriptions to academic journals and prohibitively high publishing costs unless required by federal statute or approved in advance by a federal agency. “Research funded by taxpayers should be publicly accessible; yet many publications charge the government to both publish and to access the same research study. There are numerous low-cost outlets to make federally-funded research publicly available.”
EPA
2027: $4.2 billion
2026: $8.8 billion
Change: Reduction of $4.6 billion or 52%
The EPA wants to invest $14 million into a new online permitting tool. These investments would fulfill the president’s Executive Order 14514, “Unleashing American Energy” and the presidential Memorandum Updating Permitting Technology for the 21st Century.
HHS
2027: $111.1 billion
2026: $126.9 billion
Change: Reduction of $15.8 billion or 12.5%
The administration is creating a new office as part of a broad reorganization. The Administration for a Healthy America (AHA) will prioritize programs that improve nutrition, food and drug quality and safety standards and prevent chronic disease. The administration says it is refocusing HHS on its core mission by eliminating bloated, woke, and inefficient programs that do not advance MAHA goals.
The White House will cut $5 billion by creating efficiencies through AHA by centralizing the work of multiple sub-agencies. “Within AHA, the budget promotes an efficient and effective government through consolidations and eliminations of programs that were formerly in the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health. These programs duplicate other federal spending, promote radicalized DEI ideologies or use taxpayer funds to support radical nonprofits that are not aligned with administration policies,” officials wrote.
Homeland Security
2027: $63 billion
2026: $65.2 billion
Change: Reduction of $2.2 billion or 3.3%, based on the 2026 continuing resolution level.
The administration wants to add $1.68 billion to the DHS budget in additional offsetting collections from the TSA Passenger Security Fee gained from ending contributions to deficit reduction from the fee. They say this is not a fee increase. So when controlling for this proposal, the White House says DHS would receive a reduction of $480 million or a 1-percent from the 2026 CR.
The White House says $52 million in savings would come from privatizing Transportation Security Administration screeners at small airports under a new Screening Partnership Program. TSA would pay for private screeners at designated airports. The administration says airports that already use this program have demonstrated savings compared to federal screening operations. “The move would yield cost savings compared to federal screening and begin reform of a troubled federal agency.”
Another area the White House is focused on to achieve savings is consolidating DHS headquarters. The administration estimates DHS could save $53 million by consolidating the Office of the Secretary and Executive Management, the Management Directorate, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the Office of Situational Awareness into a single office reporting to the secretary.
HUD
2027: $73.5 billion
2026:$84.2 billion
Change: Reduction of $10.7 billion or 13%
The administration is requesting $30 million for HUD to fight fraud, waste and abuse in federal housing programs. “This funding would enhance the financial reporting, visibility, and oversight of recipients and subrecipients of HUD assistance. This new investment would be used to prevent federal rental assistance going to deceased tenants and ineligible non-citizens, including illegal aliens, and eliminate funding to entities that use funding to proselytize woke agendas.”
Interior
2027: $15.9 billion
2026:$18.2 billion
Change: Reduction of $2.3 billion or 12.9%
The administration is creating the Presidential Capital Stewardship Program. This would be a $10 billion mandatory fund to establish the program within the National Park Service (NPS) to coordinate, plan and execute targeted, priority construction and beautification projects in and around Washington, D.C.
The administration wants to cut what it calls duplicative and wasteful programs, eliminating over 40 of them already covered through state, local and private sources, as well as permanent funding provided for similar purposes. Further, these programs’ projects are often of local, rather than national, significance and are not directly tied to maintaining national parks or public lands.
Justice
2027: $40.8 billion
2026: $36.1 billion
Change: Increase of $4.7 billion or 13%
The White House wants to invest $30 million to combat fraud nationwide. The funding would support the newly established National Fraud Division. “These resources would equip the department to investigate and prosecute fraudsters and provide much needed relief to those harmed by their schemes.”
The FBI would see an increase in its budget of $1.9 billion. Included in that increase is money to fund additional employee salaries and expenses.
Labor
2027: $9.9 billion
2026: $13.5 billion
Change: Reduction of $3.5 billion or 25.9%
Among the reductions the administration is proposing is a $1.6 billion cut to eliminate the Job Corps program, which the administration says has been plagued by a culture of violence, assault, sex crimes, drug infractions and death. “Centers frequently fail to help students see improved workforce outcomes, despite per-graduate costs that can reach up to $400,000. With participants earning average annual wages of just $16,695 — barely above the federal poverty level — the program is severely misaligned with the president’s priority to improve job opportunities and economic growth for all Americans.”
NASA
2027: $18.8 billion
2026: $24.4 billion
Change: Reduction of $5.6 billion or 23%
Among the cuts would be in NASA Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement by $143 million. The administration says the program has not inspired the next generation of explorers and prioritized “some groups of students over others and has had minimal impact on the student outcomes.”
SBA
2027: $329 million
2026: $1 billion
Change: Reduction of $671 million or 67%
SBA would face significant cuts to its salaries and expenses account, which the White House says grew by 34% during the Biden administration. “This rightsized S&E request reflects a reduction in staffing costs associated with eliminating unnecessary programs and eliminating earmarks.”
State and other international programs
2027: $35.6 billion
2026: $51.1 billion
Change: Reduction of $15.5 billion or 30%
The administration says the request includes an actual offsetting collections and fee revenue, as well as $2.3 billion in rescissions. Within this total, the request $33.6 billion for State, which is a $13.9 billion or 29% decrease from the 2026 enacted level.
The administration wants $5 billion for its America First Opportunity Fund (A1OF) The funding would be for the president’s foreign policy agenda and “core national security interests such as: ending mass illegal immigration; securing critical mineral supply chains; and countering adversarial expansion.” The A1OF would also provide targeted investments to enduring partners, such as Jordan and the Philippines, that commit to advancing American interests.
Transportation
2027: $26.6 billion
2026: $25 billion
Change: Increase of $1.6 billion or 6.2%
The White House wants $1.3 billion for its big, beautiful infrastructure initiative, which would be used to rebuild and modernize core transportation infrastructure to strengthen the nation’s economic vitality, support families and create high-paying jobs. The budget would provide $770 million for the Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight and Highway Projects discretionary grants program to deliver nationally- and regionally-significant projects to ease highway congestion and open up freight bottlenecks, and an additional $714 million to repair or replace highway bridges in disrepair.
The administration wants an additional $481 million for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) operations and capital investments. The money would be used to continue the administration’s air traffic controller hiring surge, as well as enhancements to aviation safety, commercial space operations and updates to FAA’s outdated telecommunications systems.
Additionally, the budget includes a request of $4 billion for FAA facilities and equipment, which paired with the $12.5 billion provided by the Working Family Tax Cuts bill would allow FAA to continue to build a brand new air traffic control system.
Treasury
2027: $11.5 billion
2026: $13 billion
Change: Reduction of $1.5 billion or 12%
The White House wants to invest $13.7 million into specific Treasury offices, including its international finance work around trade, fiscal and sanction policies.
The request also includes a $1.4 billion reduction in the IRS’s budget.. “The IRS has grown massively in recent years—in fact, from 2018 to 2024, the size of the IRS workforce increased by over 23 percent to 90,000 full time equivalents. The bureaucratic morass at this bloated agency has been weaponized against the American people, small businesses and non-profit organizations.”
Veterans Affairs
2027: $144.9 billion
2026: $133.4 billion
Change: Increase of 11.5 billion or 9%
The White House is planning big increases for the VA. Among the biggest possible increases are $800 million for the electronic health record modernization (EHRM) initiative. The EHRM program, when fully implemented, would improve the transition from servicemember to veteran and would enable closer VA-DOD collaboration, which the administration says is a priority. The department has made accelerated VA EHRM rollout a top priority effort.
The administration also is empowering the Joint Executive Council (JEC) as the principal forum for aligning VA and the DOD to solve shared challenges in caring for America’s servicemembers and veterans. “Reflecting both secretaries’ renewed commitment, JEC leadership would be this decade’s pioneers for achieving bold change and common-sense action with the alignment and the full support of the Administration. These joint efforts would begin with a focus on improving medical readiness and data integration, ensure continuity of quality care, and better alignment of joint workforce capabilities and purchasing power. The JEC also would ensure the continuity of success by laying a foundation of cross-agency governance and support of the shared agenda through redefining the scope of work that the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office, while ensuring full support for VA’s accelerated EHRM deployment schedule. This JEC would be the blueprint for future Federal interagency achievement and continued VA and DOD success.”
For the following agencies, the White House didn’t offer detailed explanations of where requested cuts or additions would come from.
Corps of Engineers
2027: $4.9 billion
2026: $6.8 billion
Change: Reduction of $1.9 billion or 28.3%
GSA
2027: $436 million
2026: $420 million
Change: Increase of $16 million or 3.8%
NARA
2027: $405 million
2026: $421 million
Change: Reduction of $16 million or 3.8%
National Science Foundation
2027: $109 million
2026: $119 million
Change: Reduction of $10 million or 8.4%
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
2027: $7 million
2026: $9 million
Change: Reduction of $2 million or 22%
OPM
2027: $146 million
2026: $167 million
Change: Reduction of $21 million or 12.5%
SSA
2027: $12.7 billion
2026: $12.7 billion
Change: no change
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