The FY2027 President's Budget requests $0.6M for General Aviation at DCA Fee, within Homeland Security's Vetting Fee Programs account. That is up 0.0% on the FY2026 figure of $0.6M, which is a continuing-resolution annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $0.6M |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | $0.6M |
| FY2027 | request | $0.6M |
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.
Homeland Security 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 Homeland Security's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
The GA program conducts a name-based STA for each passenger (including armed security officers), security coordinator, and flight crew member for GA aircraft operators operating under the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) Access Standard Security Program. It derives its authority from: Aviation and Transportation Security Act, P.L. 107-71, 115 Stat. 597, specifically 49 U.S.C. 114(m)(1), and 106(l)(6) and (m); Section 823 of the Vision 100-Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act P.L.108-176: 117 Stat. 2490 (Dec. 12, 2003), which requires the Secretary of DHS to develop a security plan to permit GA aircraft to operate into and out of DCA 49 CFR parts 1520, 1540, and 1562, Subpart B- Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport: Enhanced Security Procedures for Certain Operators.
Extracted from Transportation Security Administration, p. 6. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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