The FY2027 President's Budget requests $12.2M for Legal opinions, within Justice's Salaries and Expenses account. That is up 5.8% on the FY2026 figure of $11.5M, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $11.5M |
| FY2026 | enacted | $11.5M |
| FY2027 | request | $12.2M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Justice 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 Justice's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Funds the Office of Legal Counsel's work providing authoritative legal advice and written opinions to the President, the Attorney General, and executive branch agencies.
Extracted from Criminal Division, p. 2. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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