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R48979 DHS Budget Request Analysis: FY2027 2026-06-09T04:00:00Z 2026-06-13T05:38:04Z Active Reports William L. Painter   On April 3, 2026, President Donald Trump’s Administration released its budget request for FY2027, including $118.39 billion in total budget authority for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS is the third largest agency in the federal government in terms of civilian personnel. Its appropriations bill is the only one of the twelve annual measures that funds a single agency exclusively and in its entirety. The FY2027 budget request was the second budget proposal delivered by the second Trump Administration. It was released 27 days before the enactment of the DHS Appropriations Act, 2026, which was Division A of P.L. 119-86. Many of the proposals in the FY2026 budget request are reiterated in the FY2027 budget request, as the Administration considered those issues unresolved (FY2026 appropriations for DHS were finalized after the delivery of the budget). This report provides an overview of the FY2027 annual budget request for DHS. It provides a component-level analysis of the appropriations requested for FY2027, and puts the requested appropriations in context with the FY2025 and FY2026 enacted and FY2026 requested appropriations, to the extent possible. The FY2027 budget request for DHS includes $99.39 billion in gross discretionary budget authority, up $1.45 billion from the budget request for FY2026. When the $28.38 billion in funding requested for the costs of major disasters (which receives special budgetary treatment) is set aside, the remainder of the discretionary request is $0.46 billion below the FY2026 budget request. The $28.38 billion request represents the largest amount of annual appropriations ever requested for the Disaster Relief Fund. Some of the other major drivers of change from the FY2026 request included a 5,364-position staffing reduction for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the budget for which was further offset by a legislative proposal to provide TSA an additional $1.68 billion in budget authority by providing it the full resources of the Aviation Security Passenger Fee (previous similar proposals similar by this and previous administrations have been unsuccessful); a $766 million reduction in requested funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), due to the use of FY2025 reconciliation funding to pay for ICE’s detention and transportation and removal costs; a proposed reorganization of DHS headquarters elements, merging the DHS Management Directorate and Intelligence, Analysis and Situational Awareness functions into the Office of the Secretary and Executive Management; and a $1.46 billion increase for U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Operations and Support, including $558 million to cover annualization of pay and benefits from prior year initiatives and a 5% to 7% pay increase for USCG military personnel in FY2027. There is no pay increase proposed in FY2027 for DHS civilian personnel. The FY2027 budget request only presents a portion of the resources available to DHS. The FY2025 reconciliation measure, P.L. 119-21, provided $191.02 billion in mandatory appropriations, almost all of which was made available through FY2029. This funding was provided for a range of purposes to seven DHS components. While public information on the specific spending plans for those resources has been limited, this report uses the FY2027 request documentation and public reporting of obligations to identify what resources have been used by DHS and what resources remain available to it. Information on the appropriations committees’ responses to the Administration’s budget request is to be made available in future products. https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R48979/R48979.4.pdf https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/HTML/R48979.html

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