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Homeland Security · President's Budget PB2027

Federal Air Marshals

Homeland Security·Operations and Support·CJ p. 5
FY2027 Request
$889.0M
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FY2026 CR annualized $912.4M
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This figure was parsed from Homeland Security's FY2027 Congressional Justification, not from a standard budget exhibit. It is approximate and it is not summable with other lines. It is published so you can check it: the citation below names the exact page it was read off. Where a dollar figure matters, verify it there before using it.

The FY2027 President's Budget requests $889.0M for Federal Air Marshals, within Homeland Security's Operations and Support account. That is down 2.6% on the FY2026 figure of $912.4M, which is a continuing-resolution annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.

Funding

FY2025–FY2027

Fiscal yearBasisAmount
FY2025enacted$912.4M
FY2026CR annualized$912.4M
FY2027request$889.0M

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure — the rate a continuing resolution funds at, not an enacted appropriation. The two are different numbers and are not interchangeable. Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.

Authoritative context

Homeland Security discretionary budget authority

FY2027 request$91.40B
FY2026$88.60B
Change▲ 3.2%

From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Homeland Security's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.

In the agency's own words

What this funds

This performance measure assesses Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (LE/FAMS) coverage on U.S. commercial passenger flights that present high security risks. Federal Air Marshals (FAMs) are armed federal law enforcement officers deployed on passenger flights worldwide to protect passengers and crew from criminal and terrorist threats. High-risk flights are designated as Tier 1 In-flight Security (IFS) operations according to LE/FAMS SOP 200.1, In-Flight Security Mission Planning and Scheduling. Tier 1 IFS operations include Special Mission Coverage (SMC) for flights with high-risk travelers (HRTs) and special event coverage for significant security events. Achieving 100% coverage of high-risk flights is not always possible due to factors such as compressed timelines, international agreements, and coordination among multiple agencies.

Extracted from Transportation Security Administration, p. 5. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

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