# Executive Direction

**Agency:** Labor  
**Account:** Executive Direction  
**Source document:** Employment and Training Administration · p. 10  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/labor/executive-direction  

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

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 9.6 |
| FY2026 | enacted | 9.2 |

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

FY2027 $10.30B, FY2026 $13.70B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Executive Direction provides leadership and policy support for ETA programs and initiatives, including coordinating the policy development process through legislative relations, rulemaking, sub-regulatory guidance, performance accountability, program oversight, strategic planning, data analytics, and evidence-building. ETA's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training (OASET) and the OPDR administer these activities. Performance measures for these activities are discussed in the relevant program activity sections of the budget request. Through the active engagement of OASET and OPDR, the following strategies support program management and results throughout ETA: Defining strategic objectives relating to agency priority goals and planning and tracking programmatic operating measures and milestones aligned with the goals; Leveraging data as a strategic asset to improve performance and outcomes through data analytics and evidence-based insights to enable learning, innovation, and informed decision-making; Regularly collecting, analyzing, validating, and reporting performance data from multiple sources to create consolidated performance reports that advance program accountability; Developing and refining performance measures in alignment with federal priorities and alignment of performance accountability across the Department's programs, including compliance with the WIOA, and other key workforce legislation; Establishing national performance targets to guide program implementation and align with overarching strategic priorities; Providing legislative support and technical assistance to Congress and coordinating the alignment of technical expertise with agency priorities, resources, and operational capacity to enhance program effectiveness and efficiency. Managing the agency's Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions and supporting related regulatory activities; Overseeing the official agency system for dissemination of agency guidance to ensure clear and consistent communication; and Managing cross-agency initiatives that execute Departmental and Administration policy priorities.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Labor › Employment and Training Administration › Executive Direction


*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.*