# Federal Budget FY2027 Request The **President's Budget Request for FY2027** (Oct 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2027) — the administration's opening bid, **released April 3, 2026** (it slipped from the usual February timing, partly because of the FY2026 shutdown). A request is a proposal, not law; Congress writes the actual numbers through the [[Appropriations Process]]. See [[President's Budget Request]] for how this document functions. ## What it asks for The headline is a **defense buildup paid for by domestic cuts**: | Line | FY2027 request | vs FY2026 | |---|--:|--:| | Total discretionary | ~$2.2T | — | | Base discretionary budget authority | $1.814T | — | | — Defense (base) | $1.154T | **+27.8%** | | — Non-defense | $0.660T | **−10%** | | Mandatory defense supplemental (via [[Reconciliation]]) | +$350B | new | So defense base discretionary is requested up nearly 28% over enacted FY2026, with non-defense down 10%, plus a separate $350B mandatory defense top-up routed through reconciliation to dodge the appropriations process. The full FY2027 Historical Tables were posted alongside the request (the source for the actuals on the FY2024/FY2025 pages). *Note: the request's total-outlay and total-deficit summary lines (S-1) are not yet captured here — they should be pulled from the budget's Summary Tables before being treated as settled.* ## Where Congress is (as of August 2026): collapsed into a CR The regular process never got off the ground, and in July–August it formally collapsed into a stopgap. The **Senate Appropriations Committee marked up zero of twelve** FY2027 bills all summer — Chair Susan Collins and Vice Chair Patty Murray never reached a 302(a) topline (Collins backing the administration's large defense request, Murray demanding non-defense parity), and a string of planned markups was postponed and abandoned. The **House floor-passed three of twelve** (per CRFB's FY2027 Appropriations Watch: MilCon-VA on 5/15, 400–15; Agriculture on 6/4, 213–210; National Security-State on 7/15, 217–209). Instead of bills, Congress produced a **[[Continuing Resolution]]**: the House passed the bare-bones H.R. 9770 on **July 21** (220–205, through Dec 4); the Senate passed a bipartisan rewrite on **August 8** (**90–6**, through **Dec 11**, with administration anomalies and a block on OMB's grants rule); the House takes it up when it returns in **early September**. Until then the deadline formally remains **Sept 30, 2026**. A fourth straight year of governing FY-to-FY by stopgap — with the funding fight deliberately rescheduled past the November midterms, and the request's real ambitions (the $1.154T defense base, the $350B reconciliation top-up) deferred to a December fight. ## The RWKB read This is the fiscal blueprint of [[Project 2025]] in numbers: a sharp guns-up, domestic-down reallocation, with the defense increase partly hidden in a reconciliation supplemental rather than the visible discretionary topline. The [[Office of Management and Budget]] under [[Russell Vought]] built it. Watch whether Congress's twelve appropriations bills (the [[Appropriations Process]]) track the request or diverge — the gap between the two is the real story every cycle. ## Sources - White House / OMB, *Budget of the U.S. Government, FY2027* (released Apr 3, 2026). - Holland & Knight / NADO FY2027 budget recaps (Apr 2026) — discretionary toplines. ## Related - [[President's Budget Request]] · [[Office of Management and Budget]] · [[Russell Vought]] - [[Federal Budget FY2026]] · [[Appropriations Process]] · [[Budget Hub]]