The FY2027 President's Budget requests $533.2M for Mission Enabling, within Smithsonian's Salaries and Expenses account. That is down 7.0% on the FY2026 figure of $573.1M, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $540.7M |
| FY2026 | enacted | $573.1M |
| FY2027 | request | $533.2M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Smithsonian 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 Smithsonian's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Supports the maintenance, security, cleaning, and operations of Smithsonian facilities and centrally based administrative functions such as information technology, human resources, and procurement, plus communications, outreach, exhibits, and libraries and archives.
Extracted from SMITHSONIAN, p. 6. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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