18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Notable · Needs Congress
Cut labor agency budgets to the low end of the historical average
Printed page 615 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies
“Reduce the agencies’ budgets to the low end of the historical average. The Trump Administration’s FY 2020 request, $10.9 billion, would provide a workable target for spending reductions for DOL, for example.”
What has happened
- Attempted
The FY2027 President's Budget requests $9.9 billion in discretionary budget authority for the Department of Labor, "a $3.5 billion or 25.9-percent decrease from the 2026 enacted level" — below the $10.9 billion FY2020 request the Quote sets as the workable target. It gets there by eliminating Job Corps (-$1.6 billion), the Senior Community Service Employment Program (-$395 million), OFCCP (-$101 million), $234 million from the worker-protection agencies and $46 million from ILAB. Congress has not enacted it: the FY2026 enacted level the Budget compares against is $13.4 billion.
- Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2027 — Department of Labor chapter ("The Budget requests $9.9 billion in discretionary budget authority for the Department of Labor (DOL) for 2027, a $3.5 billion or 25.9-percent decrease from the 2026 enacted level")
- Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2027, Appendix — Department of Labor
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- §3b: a President’s Budget request is a formal administration request, so a proposed cut is attempted; Congress’s refusal is recorded in this note rather than as a second event.
- The Quote is addressed to Congress and names “the agencies” — DOL and the related agencies of the chapter. The Budget figure above is DOL alone; the related agencies (NLRB, EEOC, PBGC, FRTIB) are budgeted separately and are not aggregated here.
- Read from the Budget chapter and Appendix at govinfo;
dateIssued2026-04-03 fromapi.govinfo.gov/packages/BUDGET-2027-APP/granules/BUDGET-2027-APP-2-14/summary.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- Labor agency budgets
- ID
- 1698