The FY2027 President's Budget requests $27.4M for Media Bureau, within FCC's Salaries & Expenses - Commission (Bureaus & Offices) account. That is down 4.9% on the FY2026 figure of $28.8M, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2026–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | enacted | $28.8M |
| FY2027 | request | $27.4M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
FCC 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 FCC's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Regulates broadcast TV and radio, cable, and satellite media — licensing, ownership rules, and programming policy.
Extracted from Salaries and Expenses, p. 14. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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