All Departments
DOL Budget PDF pp. 47–49
Department of Labor
FY2026 Enacted
$13.4B
FY2027 Proposed
$9.9B
Change
$-3.5B
-25.9%
Budget reduction severity25.9% cut
5 programs affected · $2.4B total proposed reduction
Program-Level Cuts
EliminatedCritical Impact
Job Corps
$1.6B
100% cut
~50,000 at-risk youth ages 16-24 at ~120 residential centers; America's largest residential job training program
workforceyouthpoverty
EliminatedMajor Impact
Senior Community Service Employment Program
$395M
100% cut
~60,000 low-income seniors age 55+ in subsidized employment
seniorsworkforcepoverty
ReducedMajor Impact
OSHA, Wage and Hour Division, MSHA Reductions; Women's Bureau Eliminated
$234M
20% cut
Workers in hazardous industries; wage theft victims; mine workers; the Women's Bureau (est. 1920)
laborsafety
EliminatedMajor Impact
Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
$101M
100% cut
26 million workers employed by federal contractors; anti-discrimination enforcement
civil rightslabor
ReducedMinor Impact
Bureau of International Labor Affairs
$46M
40% cut
International child labor and trafficking programs; trade agreement labor enforcement
foreign aidlabor