# Criminal matters

**Agency:** Justice  
**Account:** Salaries and Expenses  
**Source document:** Criminal Division · p. 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/justice/criminal-matters  

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

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 225.3 |
| FY2026 | enacted | 234.4 |
| FY2027 | request | 282.8 |

## Justice discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $37.40B, FY2026 $36.40B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Funds federal criminal enforcement activities, including the development and prosecution of criminal cases and coordination of national enforcement programs.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Justice › Criminal Division › Salaries and Expenses › Criminal matters


*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.*