Office of Civil Rights

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This page was intentionally left blank. This publication summarizes the fiscal year (FY) 2027 Budget for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Throughout this publication any reference to the "Budget" is in regard to the 2027 Budget, unless otherwise noted. All references to years refer to fiscal year, except where specifically noted. The budgetary tables throughout this document show actual amounts for 2024 and 2025, Working Families Tax Cut Act, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2026, and the President's Budget request for 2027. Amounts for 2026 information technology investment levels, recovery levels, transfers in and out, balances available end Throughout this publication, the Working Families Tax Cut Act is used to refer to the Public Law 119- Pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, sequestration is included In tables throughout this document, amounts equal to zero (0) are displayed as dashes (-). Amounts less than 0.5 and greater than zero are rounded and shown as a zero (0). This display treatment is used to prevent the masking of small non-zero amounts that do not round up to one (1). Due to The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) advances USDA's Civil Rights mission through four strategic priorities set by the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, ensuring enforcement that is rigorous and responsive. OCR combats unlawful discrimination by eliminating race-based, sex-based, and other prohibited preferences, investigating discriminatory programs, and upholding color blind, merit-based standards in hiring and contracting. It protects women and children by enforcing federal policies on biological sex classifications, maintains single sex facilities where appropriate, and safeguarding access to sex specific opportunities. OCR defends religious freedom by addressing allegations of discrimination, combating anti-Christian bias and antisemitism, and ensuring USDA policies respect First Amendment rights and conscience protections. Finally, OCR promotes an America First principle by aligning civil rights enforcement with USDA's mission to serve American agriculture and rural communities, emphasizing service to citizens and producers, compliance with law, and support for the Secretary's At OCR, the strategic priorities guide the execution of our statutory responsibilities with a commitment to excellence. These responsibilities, established under 7 CFR ' 2.25, encompass operational support functions and transformation efforts, the processing of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) complaint, the handling of program complaints, the administration of Alternative Dispute Resolution for both EEO and program conflicts, the compliance of program and employment activities, mandatory reporting, policy development, review and oversight, and civil rights impact and data analysis. In recent years, many of these statutory duties were not given the sustained attention they require, leaving OCR and the broader civil rights framework in need of organizational renewal. Now, efforts focus on strengthening processes, improving data integrity, ensuring complaint handling and enforcement are rigorous and efficient. This includes holding recipients, including universities and other partners, accountable for legal obligations, rebuilding trust, preventing backlogs, and ensuring that civil rights enforcement fully supports USDA's mission of serving American agriculture and rural As of September 30, 2025, OCR had 148 staff (109 in Washington, DC, and 39 in field locations). OCR will undergo significant organizational restructuring to ensure strategic and operational oversight of all Opportunity (EEO): added to No Fear Act Report. Additional Actions Rec. 3, 4 and 6 - The EEO data Table OCR-2. Available Funds and FTEs (thousands of dollars, FTEs)

Extracted from Office of Civil Rights, p. 7. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

Contracts funded by this line

130 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.

Showing 8 of 130 — most confidently matched first, largest within a confidence tier. These are not necessarily the largest 8.

Confidence mix · 130 medium

Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.

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