# Protecting Consumers

**Agency:** Federal Trade Comm  
**Account:** Protecting Consumers  
**Source document:** Salaries and Expenses · p. 9  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/ftc/protecting-consumers  

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

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 213.2 |
| FY2027 | request | 213.7 |

## 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 consumer protection laws against unfair or deceptive acts and practices, pursuing investigations and litigation over fraud, scams, unlawful telemarketing, and online harms to children, and operating tools such as the Do Not Call Registry and Consumer Sentinel Network.


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


*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.*