The FY2027 President's Budget requests $3.6M for Administrative Law Judges, within NTSB's Administrative Law Judges account. That is up 15% on the FY2026 figure of $3.1M, which is a continuing-resolution annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $3.1M |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | $3.1M |
| FY2027 | request | $3.6M |
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.
NTSB 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 NTSB's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Serves as the court of appeals for airmen, air carriers, mariners, and others, with administrative law judges hearing and issuing initial decisions on appeals of FAA aviation enforcement actions and US Coast Guard certificate actions.
Extracted from NTSB, p. 19. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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