Salaries and Expenses

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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 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Working Capital Fund (WCF) was established in 1944, authorized under 7 U.S.C. 2235. The WCF mission is to provide a financing mechanism to support services that the Secretary, with the approval of the Office of Management and Budget, determines is more effective as central services within the Department's Agencies. The WCF is used to finance services provided to USDA and Non-USDA agencies on a reimbursement or fee-for-service basis. USDA services over 100 Non-USDA Agencies* which reduces USDA's share of fixed cost. Centrally managed operations provide efficient, cost-effective, reliable, and transparent services through economies of scale, extensive management oversight, and recurring Fund reviews. The WCF does not * Some of the Non-USDA agencies include: Department of Commerce, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of Air Force, Department of Army, Department of Interior, Department of Treasury, Office of Personnel Management, Federal Election Commission, Government Accountability Office, United States Secret Service, and Library of Congress. Other Non-USDA Agencies serviced consist of numerous Independent Agencies, Boards, Commissions, and The WCF introduced two new activity centers in 2025, General Counsel Legal Compliance (GCLC) and Fleet Card Charge Services (FCCS). The WCF implemented one activity center name change in 2025 with the transition of Mail and Reproduction Services (MRS) to Mail and Reproduction Management Division (MRMD). The WCF finances USDA Activity Centers under five functional categories as follows:

Extracted from Working Capital Fund, p. 8. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

Contracts funded by this line

534 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 534 — most confidently matched first, largest within a confidence tier. These are not necessarily the largest 8.

Confidence mix · 534 certain

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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