The FY2027 President's Budget requests $36.9M for Salaries and Expenses Legal Services, within Interior's Salaries and Expenses account. That is down 36% on the FY2026 figure of $58.0M, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2026–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | enacted | $58.0M |
| FY2027 | request | $36.9M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Interior 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 Interior's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Conducts the legal work supporting the Secretary and Interior's bureaus, providing legal counsel, defending litigation, preparing legal opinions, and reviewing legislation, regulations, and contracts.
Extracted from Office of the Solicitor, p. 23. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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