# Office of the General Counsel

**Agency:** CFTC  
**Account:** Salaries and Expenses  
**Source document:** CFTC · p. 8  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/cftc/office-of-the-general-counsel  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 32.1 |
| FY2027 | request | 36.0 |

## CFTC discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $0.0M, FY2026 $400.0M. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Provides legal services and support to the Commission, including litigation, adjudicatory functions, drafting and interpreting regulations and the Commodity Exchange Act, overseeing the ethics and whistleblower programs, and reviewing actions for legal sufficiency.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › CFTC › CFTC › Salaries and Expenses › Office of the General Counsel


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*