# CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT

**Agency:** Health & Human Services  
**Account:** Discretionary Programs  
**Source document:** Administration for Children, Families, and Communities · p. 9  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/hhs/child-care-and-development-block-grant  

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

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 8,746.4 |
| FY2026 | enacted | 8,831.4 |
| FY2027 | request | 8,831.4 |

## Health & Human Services discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.60B, FY2026 $131.10B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Provides the primary federal funding to help low-income families afford child care and to improve child care quality, supporting parental employment, training, and education and promoting parental choice.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Health & Human Services › Administration for Children, Families, and Communities › Discretionary Programs › CHILD CARE and DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT


*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.*