The FY2027 President's Budget requests $33.02B for Discretionary Pell grants, within Education's Student Financial Assistance account. That is up 47% on the FY2025 figure of $22.48B, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $22,475.4M |
| FY2027 | request | $33,023.4M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Education 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 Education's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Provides the discretionary appropriation for the Federal Pell Grant program, which awards need-based grants to low- and moderate-income undergraduate students to help meet postsecondary education costs.
Extracted from Student Financial Assistance, p. 32. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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