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The Trump Administration is expected to release its FY27 budget request April 3. I will be filling in information as I become aware of it. This blog entry will track FY27 appropriations developments for the federal statistical agencies and so will be updated accordingly. (See update log below.) 

See also, FY26 NIH, NSF, and AHRQ Budget Developments.

NOTE: For our more detailed and documented budget tables, see this Google document: federal statistical agency budgets back to FY00. 

 Levels in millions of dollars; Agency abbreviations listed below; NCES is for Statistics and Assessment (not NAGB or SLDS)
Latest Action: *Subcommittee mark-up; **Committee mark-up; ***Passed the Floor
&Not available because of lack of sufficient detail in summary, bill or conference report; 
NATD (or blank): No Action To Date
¹The BTS is funded through the Highway Trust Fund with levels determined by the authorizing committees. Congress is currently working on a transportation bill.
²The FY20, FY21, FY22 request, FY22 "Final", and FY23 Request levels for BLS includes $27 million, $13 M, $28.47M, $28.470M, and $15.4 M respectively, for its relocation. The relocation funds are are not reflected in the table to make the levels comparable with the FY19 and prior year funding levels.
³The FY27 request also proposes to move the NCHS from CDC to the to-be-created Office of Strategy. It also indicates NCHS funds will come from the Public Health
Service Evaluation.
⁴The BEA budget is combined with the DOC Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, for which we assume the estimate is ~$7 million.
⁵This level does not include NCSES staffing and so is not comparable with prior year levels. The comparable FY23 level is $78 million. 
⁶The President's Budget proposes to reorganize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce.

Updates (and sources):

Agency specific request

• Commerce (general): https://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/FY2027-Presidents-Budget-Request.pdf
• BEA:
• BJS set aside amount:
• BLS: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/general/budget/2027/CBJ-2027-V3-01.pdf
• BTS
• Census: 
• EIA: https://www.energy.gov/documents/doe-fy-2027-volume-2-eia
• ERS:  

• NASS:
• NCES: https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fy-2027-budget-summary-113552.pdf
• NCSES: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-2027-NSF-Budget-Request-to-Congress.pdf  The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics will operate independently of the directorates
  and continue to be supported through the R&RA appropriation.
• NCHS: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/fy-2027-gdm-cj.pdf  The FY 2027 President’s Budget
  includes $175,297,000 for the National Center for Health Statistics, continuing the planned
  reorganization from the CDC to the Office of Strategy. The funding request also includes
  costs associated with information technology and other program support costs and provides
  resources for 401 FTEs. The Office of Strategy will continue to prioritize its major data
  collection and dissemination activities, that allow policymakers and the public to monitor
  the health of the U.S. population. To address challenges like increased survey costs and a
  decrease in survey response rates, the Office of Strategy will need to invest in new statistical
  tools and approaches that complement traditional sample surveys and help build a
  sustainable data-collection infrastructure for the future.
  The Office of Strategy will continue high-priority activities including the National Vital
  Statistics System (NVSS), the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Health
  and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), and the National Health Care Surveys. The
  Office of Strategy will also expand access to public-use and restricted data access through
  tools like the Data Query System and the Virtual Data Enclave

See also: 

• FY26 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
• FY25 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
• FY24 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
• FY23 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
• Administration Releases FY23 Budget Request as Congress Finalizes FY22 Budget

• FY22 Statistical Agency Budget Developments

Statistical Agency abbreviations

 BEA Bureau of Economic Analysis
BJS Bureau of Justice Statistics
BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics
BTS Bureau of Transportation Statistics 
ERS Economic Research Service
EIA Energy Information Administration
NASS National Agricultural Statistics Service
NCES National Center for Education Statistics 
NCHS National Center for Health Statistics
NCSES National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF
ORES Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, SSA
SOI Statistics of Income Division, IRS