The FY2027 President's Budget requests $1.7M for Telecommunications Direct, Treasury Rate, within Agriculture (USDA)'s Rural Electrification and Telecommunication Program account. That is down 99% on the FY2026 figure of $155.0M, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2026–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | enacted | $155.0M |
| FY2027 | request | $1.7M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Agriculture (USDA) discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Agriculture (USDA)'s discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Funds Treasury-rate direct telecommunications loans that finance the improvement of telecommunications services in rural areas at the government's cost of money.
Extracted from Rural Utilities Service, p. 32. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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