18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Minor · Needs Congress

Expand funding for the Office of Labor-Management Standards

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Printed page 600 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies

“Increase funding levels. Congress should expand the funding of the Office of Labor-Management Standards.”

What has happened

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The Office of Labor-Management Standards has not been expanded. The FY2027 President's Budget requests $50,115,000 for OLMS against $48 million obligated in 2025 and $49 million estimated for 2026 — a nominal increase of about four per cent over two years, which is flat in real terms and is not presented as an expansion. Congress has enacted no FY2027 appropriation.
- Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2027, Appendix — Department of Labor
  Primary Executive branch Apr 3, 2026

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

Boundary, flagged to the spot-check register: §3b makes a President’s Budget request a formal administration request, which would ordinarily put a funding ask at attempted. This request is a routine line increase rather than a proposal to expand the office, so the item is held at not started with the figures as the Evidence. A reviewer who treats any above-baseline request as an attempt would move it to attempted.
The Budget cuts the Department’s worker-protection agencies by $234 million overall while leaving OLMS marginally up, which is the shape of the trade rather than an investment in OLMS.
The investigative-practice half of the Mandate’s OLMS program is #1656; the disclosure-forms half is #1650.

Action: expand
Object: Office of Labor-Management Standards funding
ID: 1651