# Mandatory Funding for Discretionary Program Costs

**Agency:** Education  
**Account:** Student Financial Assistance  
**Source document:** Student Financial Assistance · p. 32  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/education/mandatory-funding-for-discretionary-program-costs  

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

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 3,170.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 1,236.0 |

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

FY2027 $76.50B, FY2026 $79.00B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Provides mandatory funding that supports discretionary program costs of the Federal Pell Grant program, which awards need-based grants to low- and moderate-income undergraduate students.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Education › Student Financial Assistance › Student Financial Assistance › Federal Pell grants (HEA IV-A-1)


*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.*