# Promoting Competition

**Agency:** Federal Trade Comm  
**Account:** Promoting Competition  
**Source document:** Salaries and Expenses · p. 9  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/ftc/promoting-competition  

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

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 212.5 |
| FY2027 | request | 213.0 |

## Federal Trade Comm discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $100.0M, FY2026 $100.0M. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Enforces the antitrust laws through civil litigation against anticompetitive conduct and conducts premerger review of proposed transactions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act to protect competition for consumers, workers, and businesses.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Federal Trade Comm › Salaries and Expenses › Promoting Competition


*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.*